Weekend Reads Rukmini S writes in Mint about why India remains a pandemic epicentre for the coronavirus, on track to overtake the Unite...
Weekend Reads
- Rukmini S writes in Mint about why India remains a pandemic epicentre for the coronavirus, on track to overtake the United States, despite an early lockdown.
- Adrija Bose tells the story, for News18, about how school girls in an Uttar Pradesh village stopped child marriages during the epidemic.
- “Google trend data for about a week at that time in Tamil Nadu established that except on the day of Sridevi’s death, the number of searches on Syria’s humanitarian crisis was higher than the number of searches on the actor,” writes Kavita Muralidharan for Newslaundry on the state’s different media consumption trends. “Incidentally smaller towns and villages showed greater interest in Syria than the major cities.”
- “Compare it to the national stage, and the similarities are uncanny of a ruling party delivering indifferent governance, but remaining politically dominant because of the lack of a strong Opposition which can’t really go beyond its traditional, shrinking, base of voters. Will Bihar reinforce or break the cycle?” asks “Chanakya”, previewing the upcoming state elections for the Hindustan Times.
- Ankur Pathak in the Huffington Post speaks to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra about Rang De Basanti, his movie about dissent that made a huge splash when it came out in 2005 – and what it would mean to try and make a movie like that today.
- A much-criticised and praised piece by Yogendra...
