Above the fold: Top stories of the day
1.Women can now serve as combat pilots in the Indian Air Force.
2. Dismissing the protests by writers and intellectuals, Bharatiya Janata Party President described it as a perception limited to Delhi’s posh “Lutyen’s zone”.
3. Pulling out all stops in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has released a video of Nitish Kumar visiting a tantrik in bid to drive a wedge between Kumar and Lalu.
4. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavais has spoken out against the state’s builder-corporator-civic officials nexus.
5. The Shiv Sena attempt to stop a Pakistani play in Gurgaon even as the Maharashtra government seeks to withdraw cases against two Pune Sainiks accused of instigating violence.
6. One killed in unprecedented Muhurram attack on Shias in Dhaka. ISIS claims responsibility.
Weekend reads
1. In the Indian Express, Navjeevan Gopal explains how the political situation in the Punjab could be fuelling the recent religious violence.
2. It took reports in the foreign media push the Modi government into some kind of response on the Dadri lynching says Aakar Patel in the Mint.
3. In the Indian Express, Amrith Lal profiles the 33 writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protests the country’s rising intolerance.
4. Even as “Love Jihad” has become a mainstream political issue, in Kerala, a movie about a 60-year old Hindu-Muslim doomed romance is running to packed theatres.
5. In the Mint, Charles Assissi writes about how the Great Indian Middle Class is a chimera.
6. In the Hindu, Mini Kapoor castigates the Board of Cricket Control in India for capitulating to the Shiv Sena.
7. In the Mint, Dilip D’Souza explains how Virender Sehwag rewrote the test cricketer’s playbook.
8. In the Business Line, Bhavya Dore reports on the Scrabble Youth Championship and what makes Pakistan so astonishingly good at it.
9. In Nature, Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalising of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium BC.
10. In the National Review, James Lileks explains the Twitter war over Black Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars
1.Women can now serve as combat pilots in the Indian Air Force.
2. Dismissing the protests by writers and intellectuals, Bharatiya Janata Party President described it as a perception limited to Delhi’s posh “Lutyen’s zone”.
3. Pulling out all stops in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has released a video of Nitish Kumar visiting a tantrik in bid to drive a wedge between Kumar and Lalu.
4. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavais has spoken out against the state’s builder-corporator-civic officials nexus.
5. The Shiv Sena attempt to stop a Pakistani play in Gurgaon even as the Maharashtra government seeks to withdraw cases against two Pune Sainiks accused of instigating violence.
6. One killed in unprecedented Muhurram attack on Shias in Dhaka. ISIS claims responsibility.
Weekend reads
1. In the Indian Express, Navjeevan Gopal explains how the political situation in the Punjab could be fuelling the recent religious violence.
2. It took reports in the foreign media push the Modi government into some kind of response on the Dadri lynching says Aakar Patel in the Mint.
3. In the Indian Express, Amrith Lal profiles the 33 writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protests the country’s rising intolerance.
4. Even as “Love Jihad” has become a mainstream political issue, in Kerala, a movie about a 60-year old Hindu-Muslim doomed romance is running to packed theatres.
5. In the Mint, Charles Assissi writes about how the Great Indian Middle Class is a chimera.
6. In the Hindu, Mini Kapoor castigates the Board of Cricket Control in India for capitulating to the Shiv Sena.
7. In the Mint, Dilip D’Souza explains how Virender Sehwag rewrote the test cricketer’s playbook.
8. In the Business Line, Bhavya Dore reports on the Scrabble Youth Championship and what makes Pakistan so astonishingly good at it.
9. In Nature, Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalising of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium BC.
10. In the National Review, James Lileks explains the Twitter war over Black Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars
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