1. In the Hindu, Santosh Mehrotra has a prescription for creating more jobs.
  2. Grand schemes like bullet trains shooting out of Ahmedabad make great headlines but may not stimulate the economy, points out Bhaskar Datta in the Telegraph.
  3. For Mint on Sunday, Nidhi Dugar Kandalia visits Sekmai in Manipur, where wars and a troubled past are drowned in a cup of freshly brewed rice liquor.
  4. In the Indian Express, Esha Roy writes that Mukul Roy, once a stalwart of the Trinamul Congress and now a rebel likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, could be a dangerous force for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to reckon with.
  5. In Hindu BLInk, Sidin Vadukut has tips for novelists on how to invent a terrifying new infectious disease.
  6. In the Economic Times, Ram Singh has thoughts on the “libertariann paternalist approach” to policy making.
  7. Trump’s marriage to the religious right reeks of hypocrisy on both sides, writes Daniel Jose Camacho in the Guardian.
  8. Ali Lapetina meets the persecuted Rohingya of Myanmar who made it to Chicago, for this article in the New York Times.
  9. For the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow speaks to women who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
  10. The Brexit secretary and the Treasury face legal action for repeatedly failing to make public vital reports on the economic effects of Brexit, writes Molly Scott Cato in the Independent.