- Police encounters should not be encouraged by the political leadership, writes Julio Ribeiro in the Indian Express.
- In the Hindu, Nandini Sundar calls for the Chhattisgarh government to form a Truth and Reconciliation commission after an inquiry commission indicted security forces for the killing of 17 unarmed civilians in Sarkeguda.
- In the Telegraph, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui examines the celebrations around the extrajudicial killing of the four accused in the Hyderabad case.
- The recent onion crisis shows that money might lose its value but food never does, writes Sandip Roy in Livemint.
- In the Hindu BLInk, academic Navroz Dubash speaks to Rihan Najib about the clear and present danger of climate change in India.
- Also in the Indian Express, Mukulika Banerjee on how the lived liberalism of her parents’ generation has been besieged since December 6, 1992.
- In the New Yorker, Dexter Filikins trailed journalist Rana Ayyub as she reported on the dispossession of Muslims in a Hindu nationalist India.
- In the New York Times, Jonathan Kirshner returns to John Maynard Keynes’s 1919 book, the Economic Consequences of the Peace, which detected the seeds of war in the punitive Treaty of Versailles.
- In the Hindustan Times, Mark Tully points out how the United Kingdom’s approaching election resembles the last Indian general election, with its emphasis on populist personalities.
- In the New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Tsurkov takes a closer look at Turkey’s proxy fighters in Syria.
Reading
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‘Send millions of Indian peasants to Brazil to eradicate poverty and starvation’
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Why is India’s middle class so silent about the slowing economy?
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Foxconn halts equipment, manpower from China to Indian iPhone factories
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The murky, unregulated world of psychological counselling in India
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Readers’ comments: TM Krishna’s concerns are valid but he misses uniqueness of Carnatic music
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The close and steadfast friendship between Soumitra Chatterjee and Uttam Kumar
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‘A subject that is guaranteed to make you universally disliked’: Pankaj Mishra on writing about Gaza
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Four new tarantula species identified in Western Ghats
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Is not having children selfish, a ‘moral failing’? Anti-natalists explain why it’s an ethical choice
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AAP accuses BJP of trying to eliminate Arvind Kejriwal, claims attack on his car