Weekend reads
1. Pakistan and India cannot agree on whether Kashmir is a bilateral or multilateral issue. But Pakistan will have to deal with its terror problem before it can internationalise the dispute, writes Khaled Ahmed in the Indian Express.2. Even as India prepares for a season of international summits, it needs to change its emphasis to a process-driven diplomacy outside the fanfare of such events, says Shyam Saran in the Hindu.
3. Publishers have decided to stop trying to modernise the language of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series, reports Amit Roy in the Telegraph, so "galoshes", "sou'westers" and "luncheons" will remain intact in the new editions.
4. In the Economic Times, Vikram Sampath writes that the Cauvery dispute, which needs to be settled sensitively and scientifically, cannot be left to courts and mobs.
5. The United Nations and White House summits on refugees and mass migration are likely to flounder, writes Alexander Betts in the Guardian. Hope lies in the business and civil society initiatives on the margins of the formal meetings.
6. Also in the Guardian, Dierdre O'Callaghan asks star drummers, from David Grohl to Ringo Starr, why they became drummers – you get none of the credit but do a lot of the hard work.
7. In Livemint-Lounge, Namita Bhandare, Pradip Kumar Saha, Preeti Zacharia and Akhila Ranganna report on how girls are changing sports in India.
8. In the New York Times, Accra Shepp tracks down a number of Occupy Wall Street protestors to see where there lives have led them since.
9. In Hindu BLInk, Shovon Chowdhhury writes a brief history of sanskari pants.
10. In the New Yorker. Hilton Als explores the writing of Edward Albee, author of plays such as Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, who died on September 16.
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