Category: Weekend Reading

Notes from North-East: Weekend Reading

This weekend, please find a selection of articles from the North-East, touching on some of the topics previously discussed here. More “Notes from North-East” next week. Stay tuned. The first extract on Majuli, the...

Readings for Sleepless Nights: Liberals, Tharoor and BJP

First, some excerpts from a piece by Gerard Alexander on Why are liberals so condescending? Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries...

W’end Reading: Fake Notes, Trash, Brahma-Saraswati and AQ Khan

This is what I am reading this weekend. How Bengal towns are becoming transit points for fake notes West Bengal’s intelligence agencies have expressed concern that Pakistan-and Bangladesh-based racketeers are using the state’s Murshidabad...

W’end Links: Saraswati, a 27-year war & spin doctors

Start your weekend with Sandhya Jain’s review of Prof BB Lal’s latest book which traces the continuity of Indian culture since the dawn of the Saraswati-Sindhu civilisation. Excerpts from Discovery of India by Sandhya...