- In the Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta explains how and why the idea of Pakistan is taking over India.
- The post-Pulwama frenzy reflects more outrage at India’s hurt pride than mourning for the murdered jawans, points out Sunanda K Datta-Ray in the Telegraph.
- The Supreme Court order on the eviction of forest dwellers raises some very disturbing questions, writes Kalpana Kannabiran in the Hindu.
- In Mint, Priya Ramani explains how you can identify whether you are an anti-national.
- Bangladesh’s Islamists aim to reverse the revolution of the 1971 Liberation War, says K Anis Ahmed on the Hudson Institute website.
- In the Jacobin, Meagan Day makes her case for why the socialist Bernie Sanders should be the next president of the United States.
- Feminist writer Andrea Dworkin is more ridiculed that cited for her extreme views opposing both pornography and sex work. A new collection of her writings, however, call for a rethink, argues Moira Donegan in Book Forum.
- In the Guardian, Stefan Collini reviews a richly detailed biography of Eric Hobsbawm which reveals his inner life and traces how he became the world’s top historian and a literary star.
- One of the most radical thinkers of the eighteenth century, Frenchman Denis Diderot was both too much a man of his time and too much ahead of his time, writes Lynn Hunt in the New York Review of Books.
- In the New York Times, Kevin Rose writes about how he got over his smartphone addiction.
- New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories, explains Antonio Regalado in the MIT Technology Review.
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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View from the Margins: A Dalit Christian explains why he will be voting for change
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EC rejects claims that EVMs gave extra votes to BJP in Kerala mock polls, SC reserves verdict
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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Beyond the hype: Why the BJP is eyeing Tamil Nadu’s most prosperous region
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Exaggerations, silences and treasure: Kerala’s Arabian tale of migration to the ‘Gulf’
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Ageing countries benefit from immigrant labour, but workers themselves have difficult retirements
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The Tamil Nadu voter who views the BJP as a threat to the education system