
India
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, KDA chairman argue about Karnataka govt's proposal of English-medium classes in primary schools
KDA chairman SG Siddaramaiah urged Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy to rollback the proposal to introduce English-medium classes in schools and instead encourage education in Kannada.

India
Gauri Lankesh murder: Fear among writers is now unidentified and undefined, says author Shashi Deshpande
Some time ago when I was speaking to senior author Shashi Deshpande, she had made a comment that the present situation was "scary". It is not a term she uses often