- In the Hindu, Santosh Mehrotra has a prescription for creating more jobs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In Hindu BLInk, Sidin Vadukut has tips for novelists on how to invent a terrifying new infectious disease.
- In the Economic Times, Ram Singh has thoughts on the “libertariann paternalist approach” to policy making.
- Trump’s marriage to the religious right reeks of hypocrisy on both sides, writes Daniel Jose Camacho in the Guardian.
- Ali Lapetina meets the persecuted Rohingya of Myanmar who made it to Chicago, for this article in the New York Times.
- For the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow speaks to women who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
- 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.
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