The true face of education in India; how the BJP deftly played the Congress in Karnataka; data protection legislation; and more.

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [The BJP May Outsmart It in Karnataka But Congress Can Still Gain Nationally]( Prem Shankar Jha [The lesson from the election and its aftermath is that the Congress must be prepared to build confederal coalitions with regional parties and not worry about who leads them.]( [Amid Karnataka Drama, a Reminder That One BJP MLA in Manipur Never Quit Congress]( Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty [Eight other Congress MLAs have joined the saffron party in the state in violation of the Tenth Schedule of the constitution]( [Let's Not Wait for a Silent Spring in the Kumaon Himalayas]( Ghazala Shahabuddin [Ghazala Shahabuddin describes her and her peers' efforts to understand how Himalayan birds cope with the twin threats of land-use change and global warming.]( [Should There be a ‘Developing Country’ Template For Data Protection Legislation?]( Prashant Reddy T. [If we are to follow the European path, we first need to see some rigorous Indian scholarship explaining why a European-style General Data Protection Regulation is the best way for India and how it affects our existing rights.]( [US Spent $2.8 Trillion on Fighting Terrorism, but to What End? We Don’t Know]( Seema Sirohi [A new report titled 'Counterterrorism Spending: Protecting America While Promoting Efficiencies and Accountability' attempts to make sense of the enormous expenditure, but doesn't categorically judge success or failures.]( [For Public Sector Banks to Thrive, Look at the Problem Differently]( C.R.L. Narasimhan [The push for privatisation doesn't hold the answer. Public sector bank reform needs to be examined from the standpoint of international and domestic exposure.]( [How the BJP Deftly Played the Congress in Karnataka]( Pranav Kuttaiah [The apparent incoherence within the BJP and the friction between the high command and regional leaders was part of the plan. Most analysts failed to recognise this, even as they undermined the nuance of how localised the election was.]( [Vodafone Versus India – BIT by BIT, International Arbitration Becomes Clearer]( Prabhash Ranjan and Pushkar Anand [The detailed facts reported in the Delhi HC judgement show that the conduct of the Indian government in dealing with Vodafone leaves much to be desired.]( [A Sick Society That Manufactures Failures – the True Face of Education in India]( Avijit Pathak [Young minds in India are being destroyed by a faulty pattern of education, parental ambitions, the aggression of hyper-competitiveness and a flawed idea of 'success'. In such a system that brings about the death of creativity, there is no real winner.]( [Meet the Pakistani Barrister Who Fought to Repatriate an Ailing Indian Prisoner]( Chintan Girish Modi [Haya Zahid talks about the bureaucratic hurdles during the process of Jetindaera Arjanwara's repatriation, the living conditions of Indian and Pakistani prisoners in each other's countries and more.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](