- What does Europe have against halal? In the Boston Review, John R Bowen explains how food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.
- Are plants animals like any other? In Books and Ideas, Enrique Utria explores the ideas of the philosopher Florence Burgat.
- In Fifty-Two, Mridula Chari asks why Indians are still starving 75 years after independence.
- Truth, knowledge, justice – to understand how our loftiest abstractions earn their keep, trace them to their practical origin, argues Matthieu Queloz in Aeon.
- Modi and Shah’s humiliating walk back on Kashmir is proof of their failed policy, argues Sushant Singh in the Wire.
- Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires, argue Robert Pollin and Garald Epstein in the Boston Review.
- Becoming more left or right cannot save the Congress party, argues Asim Ali in the Telegraph.
- Do cats know the meaning of life? In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paul J. D’Ambrosio reviews philosopher John Gray’s Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life.
- Why the popularity of AK47s provides important lessons for development: Ann Bernstien interviews developmental econonomist Lant Pritchett for South African policy thinktank CDE.
- On this blog, econonomist Branko Milanovic reviews Yang Jisheng’s graphic history of the Cultural Revolution.
Reading
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‘Send millions of Indian peasants to Brazil to eradicate poverty and starvation’
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How Rajendra Chola and his army sailed across the seas in the 11th century to beat the Malays
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New Delhi to assist US in repatriating 18,000 undocumented Indian migrants: Report
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Weight loss resolutions don’t work – focusing on health and well being can be better
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Why India’s increasing elderly population faces a dire future
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Readers’ comments: TM Krishna’s concerns are valid but he misses uniqueness of Carnatic music
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From the memoir: Star para-athlete Deepa Malik recounts the discrimination she faced at the airport
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Why is India’s middle class so silent about the slowing economy?
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Don’t get offended, set high standards: A corporate leader’s tips on how to make a mark at workplace
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The fall of Kashmir’s mighty chinar trees