- Quick fixes like loan waivers detract attention from the core issues that plague Indian agriculture: a political economy that emphasizes lower inflation over everything else, argues Himanshu in the Mint.
- In the context of Naseeruddin Shah, Fatima Khan in the Print writes on the repeated need felt by elite Muslims to insist on their lack of belief while speaking against Muslim killings.
- While Gandhi may have been a racist as a young man, over time he changed his attitudes comprehensively comprehensively, argues Ramachandra Guha in the Telegraph.
- In Swarajya magazine, Shraddhanand argues that the fact thatVinayak Savarkar’s writings are mostly in Marathi has allowed him to be caricatured by both the right and the left.
- In the Nikkei, Gwen Robinson explains how Bangladesh become one of the world’s economic success stories.
- The people of the United States overwhelmingly oppose foreign wars. That is just one reason that President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out troops from Syria is correct, argues Micheal Brendan Dougherty in the National Review.
- Philosopher Slavoj Zizek writes in RT on how Mao would have evaluated France’s Yellow Vest protests.
- In Mint, Tony Joseph explains where the ancient communities of the Andamanese archipelago, now on the edge of extinction, come from – and how they are related to the First Indians.
- In the Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch makes the case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities.
- In Alternet, Valerie Tarico has six points about why Baby Jesus stories were late additions to early Christian lore.
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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View from Pakistan: Islamabad must be proactive and normalise trade relations with New Delhi
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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ISL: Kerala Blasters FC axe Ivan Vukomanovic as head coach
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As wetlands of Assam’s Majuli island go dry, ecology thrown out of balance
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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BJP Karnataka candidates Tejasvi Surya and K Sudhakar booked for electoral offences: EC