Weekend Reads

  1. Protecting cows and arresting Romeos isn’t Yogi Adityanath’s greatest challenge: eradicating encephalitis is, writes Karan Thapar in the Hindustan Times.      
  2. In the Hadiya “love jihad” case, an adult has been denied the right to choose her faith, argues Jiby K Kattakayam in the Times of India.
  3. In the 10 months between October 2016 and August this year, 18 people have been killed in tiger attacks near the reserve on Uttar Pradesh’s border with Nepal. In the Indian Express, Kavita Upadhyay writesaboutthe hunt for these man eaters.
  4. The house that Jinnah built:  In Mint, Sheela Reddy explains how Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Bombay mansion was deeply connected with his dreams of Pakistan and ambitions of being the Great Leader.
  5. In Open, Shashi Tharoor writes about the diminished role of the Parliamentarian in modern India.
  6. Trade wars and the Great China Wall: Ajay Srivastav in the Times of Indiaexplains how India can get its act together for a China-smart trade policy.
  7. Thousands of scientists took to the streets in 25 cities across India, decrying the drying-up of funds and scientific temper. In the Business Line, Shriya Mohan writes about what simmers.
  8. In the New York Times, R Dereck Black writes about that White nationalism gets right about the history of the United States.
  9. What would a museum of capitalism look like? In the New Yorker, Anna Wiener visits a museum in the United States that images capitalism to be part of humanity’s past.
  10. What does the exit of the far right Steve Bannon from the Trump adminstration means for the United States? Andrew Prokop explains in Vox.