1. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s loss in Gorakhpur has created many new possiblities, writes Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph.
  2. In the Hindu, Happymon Jacob urges India to reach an understanding with Pakistan before the situation at the border spins out of control.
  3. In the Indian Express, Harsh Mander on how Sonia Gandhi’s fear that the Congress is seen as a Muslim party completes the community’s abandonment.
  4. The Islamic State has been halted in its tracks and the proto-state it established dismantled, but it continues to find new followers, writes Stanly Johny in the Hindu BLInk.
  5. In the Economic Times, Prakash Chandra on how India is about to take the second giant leap for mankind on the Moon.
  6. A Guardian investigation by Carol Cadwalladr reveals the murky links between Cambridge Analytica, a data mining and analysis company, and the Brexit Leave campaign in Britain and Team Trump in the United States. In this report, a 28-year-old talks about how 50 million Facebook profiles were hijacked in order to target the American electorate.
  7. The Russian youth are curious but not insurrectionary as the country goes to polls, writes Joshua Yaffer in the New Yorker.
  8. In Mint on Sunday, Vandana Shukla on the loneliness of the Malerkotla qawwals.
  9. In the London Review of Books, Amia Srinivasan asks a political question: does anyone have the right to sex?
  10. In LiveMint, Sidin Vadukut argues that the odiousness of Winston Churchill was not the only reason for the Bengal Famine of 1943.