Category: Weekend Reading

W’end Links: Intelligence, Cash Transfers and Poverty Levels

Start the weekend with this fascinating piece on a flawed understanding of intelligence. Move on to a persuasive piece by Swaminathan S Aiyar on why direct cash transfers may provide better relief  to the drought hit...

What I am hoping to read this weekend

How to be on Time courtesy Guy Kawasaki Secret files on Veer Savarkar and others kept in London Transcript of the Dec 4 Discussion on Mumbai Attacks over at the CounterTerrorism Panel Did Jesus...

Weekend Links: Islam, History, Kashmir and AI

Start your weekend with this thought-provoking excerpt from Rethinking Islam, extracted from Ziauddin Sardar’s “Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures” (emphasis mine): …But the violence performed to sacred Muslim concepts is insignificant compared to the...