A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the past week.
When Rahul says ‘Happy Birthday‘
Rahul Gandhi’s public birthday wishes to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is part of a charm offensive through which political rules are being rewritten ahead of the 2019 elections, writes ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. In the new order, he argues, ideological niceties can wait as long as the objective of ‘anybody but Modi’ is achieved.
Unlike me, Pakistan can’t walk away from Imran Khan
Pakistani journalist Reham Khan says she is not surprised Imran Khan is going to lead Pakistan and that is why she wrote her autobiography. The problem is that everyone wants a hero and Imran Khan was the only one for 40 years in a country with very little to be proud of, she writes.
Congress considers income tax exemption for all under 35
The idea of income tax exemption for those under 35 was discussed at a Congress Working Committee on 13 July, but the party hasn’t decided yet on whether to include it in its manifesto for the general elections next year, reports Kumar Anshuman.
Modi government’s Museum of Prime Ministers won’t feature Nehru
The Narendra Modi government’s decision to build a Museum of Prime Ministers on Delhi’s Teen Murti estate is designed to include all prime ministers in the past as well as in the future, reports Jyoti Malhotra. The museum, however, will begin from Jawaharlal Nehru’s successor Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Viagra is the new epidemic to hit Indian men
Sales of the anti-impotency drug has risen 40% in the last eight years in India even as doctors warn that more and more young men are seeking refuge in Viagra, reports Himani Chandna.
Karan Thapar must not really grumble about access
As controversy surrounds his autobiography Devil’s Advocate, journalist Karan Thapar’s complaint about lack of access doesn’t hold given the fact that his clan was among the elite of undivided Punjab and then New Delhi, with connections to the Nehru-Gandhis and Khushwant Singh, reports Nandita Singh.
Much safer to be a cow in many places in India today than a Muslim
With reports of lynchings surfacing routinely, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor writes that since the ascent of the BJP to power, the forces unleashed by the dominance of Hindutva have resulted in many incidents of violence.