Weekend reads: Stories on Gandhi, climate change, football and more

Here are 10 must-read stories from around the globe this Sunday.

1. We have only to recall Olof Palme’s assassination in Stockholm, the capture and killing of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, the exile of the Dalai Lama to see that in all those, Gandhi’s “Ko jaane kal ki” is a real satya, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi in The Telegraph.

2. The Paliath Achans were chief ministers to the Maharajas of Cochin. They were so wealthy that they often overshadowed the kings. Their glory days are gone but the memories, and a museum, remain, writes Manu S Pillai in The Hindu.

3. Vikram and Pragyan may be lost, frozen in what must be an awkward tilted position for eternity, but that part of the Moon will indeed forever remain Indian, argues Shalini Langer in the Indian Express.

4. How the IAS has let India down: Former bureaucrat N C Saxena writes in Hindustan Times.

5. The Instrument of Accession is the very nexus of India’s claims over Kashmir. But the Centre's August 5 decision works towards nullifying it, write Priyaranjan Jha and Pranay Jha in The Wire.

6. Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement, writes Eric Beinhocker in The Guardian.

7. India must stop deforesting its mountains if it wants to fight floods, writes Gayathri D Naik in The Conversation.

8. CNN's climate correspondent Bill Weir profiles Greta Thunberg, the teenage old soul of the climate crisis.

9. Why Aren’t Female Celebrities Writing More Novels, asks writer and editor Katy Hershberger in Slate.

10. BBC's football writer Guillem Balague dissects Zinedine Zidane's unimpressive show at Real Madrid.