Sitdown Sunday: ‘People around me were being arrested’

News Snapshot:

IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked the week’s best reads for you to savour. 1. Femicide in India Manvir Singh writes about the death of his cousin in India, one of thousands of women who have been killed in the country as a result of marriage-payment disputes. A moving read about domestic abuse and dowries in India. (The New Yorker, approx 25 mins reading time) In 1979, more than four decades before Neeti’s death, protesters poured through the streets of New Delhi with a...