- In the Telegraph, Ramachandra Guha predicts the Bharatiya Janata Party will revive the Hindutva plank for the next Lok Sabha election.
- In the Indian Express, Khalid Ahmed writes that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf placed those who shared his views on Kashmir in key positions.
- Rana Safvi has a meditation about the mausoleums of emperors in the Hindu.
- Rashesh Shah reflects on the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s contribution to the Indian growth story in the Economic Times.
- A video revolution is sweeping through India, writes Payel Majumdar Upreti in the Hindu BLInk.
- No one expected Vajpayee to be so engaged in improving relations with Pakistan, instead of breathing fire as his party affiliations might have dictated, writes Meghnad Desai in the Indian Express.
- Vinita Bali suggests ways to address bad nutrition among Indians, especially children, in the Hindu.
- In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland writes on United States President Donald Trump and the normalisation of autocracy.
- Carl Wilson, in the Slate, tells the story of Aretha Franklin’s Respect, the “quintessential empowerment anthem”.
- In the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch on the late United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan’s unaccountable legacy.
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