- The Bharatiya Janata Party’s loss in Gorakhpur has created many new possiblities, writes Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph.
- In the Hindu, Happymon Jacob urges India to reach an understanding with Pakistan before the situation at the border spins out of control.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the Economic Times, Prakash Chandra on how India is about to take the second giant leap for mankind on the Moon.
- 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.
- The Russian youth are curious but not insurrectionary as the country goes to polls, writes Joshua Yaffer in the New Yorker.
- In Mint on Sunday, Vandana Shukla on the loneliness of the Malerkotla qawwals.
- In the London Review of Books, Amia Srinivasan asks a political question: does anyone have the right to sex?
- In LiveMint, Sidin Vadukut argues that the odiousness of Winston Churchill was not the only reason for the Bengal Famine of 1943.
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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The rise of Afghanistan’s women YouTubers
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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Maharashtra officials told to pay activist Rs 2 lakh for blocking letter from jail to mother