Weekend Reads

  1. Paranjoy Guha Thaukrta in the Economic and Political Weekly back in June called on the Supreme Court to review its decisions clearing Reliance Jio on allegations of rigging the system.
  2. The policemen of Kashmir now face fire from all sides, reports Basharat Masood in the Indian Express.
  3. Are we ready for a new Indian superhero on screen, asks Sankhayan Ghosh in Mint? 
  4. "Ma Teresa, you who made waters thirst for the thirsty, food hunger for the hungry, the rich go a-begging for beggars, now as Saint Teresa, you have yet to do something beautiful for your India," writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi in the Telegraph. 
  5. Ajay Shah explains why policy-making in India has to first walk before it can start running, and then follows this up, with Satya Poddar, on translating that policy into a way to implement the Goods and Services Tax.
  6. Bhavya Dore in Blink writes about a flower that blooms once in eight years in Maharashtra and nearby states. 
  7. "One of the greatest batsmen of the modern era," Mithali Raj speaks to Cricket Monthly's Shashank Kishore about her life in cricket.
  8. Marc Parry in the Guardian examines the work of Harvard historian Caroline Ekins, who helped uncover the brutal truth about the British empire.
  9. "It would be a salutary thing to have some old-school feminist pugnacity injected back into the culture," writes Zoe Heller reviewing two recent books on the sexuality of young girls for the New York Review of Books.
  10. Irina Aleksander in the New York Times Magazine wonderfully condenses the convoluted story of Edward Snowden's journey to Hollywood.