The Weekend Fix: Debating a uniform code (even as no one knows what it is) and 9 more Sunday reads

Weekend Reads

1. India’s torturous justice system means that 13 Muslim men charged under the Bangalore terror case of 2012 will face less time in jail if they plead guilty. Johnson TS tells us their story in the Indian Express.
2. In the Economic and Political Weekly, Alok Prasanna Kumar argues that the necessity or otherwise of a uniform civil code cannot be debated in the absence of a coherent conception of what the UCC will be and what it will do.
3. The Cyril Almeida saga: In the Hindustan Times, Imtiaz Ahmed writes about the games played by Pakistan army and its government.
4. Brics has lost its unique identity within the brokerage industry. Will it retain its political identity, asks Sukumar Muralidharan in the Hindu Business Line.
5. In the New York Times, Jeremy Peters traces an odd trend: Hindu Nationalists are among Donald Trump’s biggest fans.
6. In Mint, Deepa Kandaswamy tells the tale of Robert Bruce Foote, the father of India’s prehistory.
7. In the Guardian, John B Judis traces the rise of populism in the Western world.
8. In the City Journal, Roger Scruton profiles the new kind of Leftist thinker that became popular after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
9. In Evonomics, David Graeber explains why capitalism is so good at creating pointless jobs.
10. In Forbes, Ethan Siegel asks where our direction of time comes from. Why does time always flow forward, never back?

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