- Will there be a George Floyd moment in India’s public life, asks Suhas Palshikar in the Indian Express.
- Science and governance should be decentralised and placed in the public domain to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, writes Milind Sohoni, also in the Indian Express.
- Online classrooms undermine the idea of education, writes Ashwin Jayanti in the Hindu.
- In the Economic Times, TK Arun explains why India needs a new bad bank.
- The worst phase of the coronavirus wave is yet to come for Delhi and Mumbai, writes Barkha Dutta in the Hindustan Times, and both cities face an acute shortage of health workers rather than beds.
- In Livemint, Sayantan Bera examines whether the spate of agricultural reforms will improve rural lives.
- Parth Kumar traces the procedural lapses behind the Assam gas leak and fire in DownToEarth.
- In the Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi on the moral imperative to resist immoral regimes.
- In the New Yorker, Ben Wallace-Wells examines whether coronavirus contact tracing can survive reopening after months of lockdown in the United States.
- Alia Allana writes in the Atlantic about how the Parle-G biscuit tells the story of India’s coronavirus pandemic.
Reading
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State, builders claim Mumbai’s salt pans are key to solving housing crisis. Is their plan viable?
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How silent reading communities in Srinagar are encouraging a newfound love for books and reading
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Pollution, human-wildlife conflict might cause high stress among mugger crocodiles, finds study
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‘Tanaav 2’ review: Truncated season leaves us hanging
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The first English language play in modern India: How Amir Khan became the Nawab of Tonk
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This child soldier was killed in an anti-Maoist operation in Bastar. She was not the only one
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The singularity of literary production: Nirmal Verma and Jorge Luis Borges in London, 1976
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September global nonfiction: Six new books revisit events that changed the course of global history
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How Gatoes navigated poor internet to pioneer food delivery across Kashmir
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Mumbai’s ageing buildings need renovation – not redevelopment