Monday July 22 2024
Culture 

Great computer meltdown: Say hello to CrowdStrike

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Good Reads

An excellent list of deep dives, features, and profiles from around the web.

Good Reads
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The Quiz

Say hello to splainer’s weekly quiz. Nope, it isn’t boring!

The Quiz
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Smart and Curious

Angela Merkel the detective, LEGO bricks for space & China’s live-in son-in-laws.

Smart & Curious
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The Paris Olympics is here!

July 26 2024

Aaj ki taaza khabar features our Olympics curtain-raiser and launch of OpenAI's SearchGPT.

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Mr Netanyahu goes to America

July 25 2024

Here’s all the taaza khabar from around the world today!

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Union budget: Making mincemeat of the middle class

July 24 2024

Here’s all the taaza khabar from around the world today!

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Supreme Court ruling on the Kanwariya controversy

July 23 2024

Here’s all the taaza khabar from around the world today!

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Unacademy: Canary in the edtech coal mine?

The Big Story

The future of edtech appears cloudy even as the Kota factories churn on. What went wrong?

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A lovely photograph of women at a beach in Tamil Nadu

Sanity Break

A touching moment of newfound sisterhood at the beach, captured in Tamil Nadu.

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Smart & Curious

Smart and Curious

A list of curious facts including flying hippos, movies for the dead & pretty piñatas.

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Tourism rage: The problem with your summer vacay

The Big Story

We look at summer ‘overtourism’ and why it’s now a focus of public anger around the world.

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Saturday July 20 2024

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To the rescue? Bill Gates in India 

To the rescue? Bill Gates in India

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Eat

A lovely selection of Christian family recipes—from Awadhi kebabs to Bhojpuri specialties.

Issai andaaz: A UP-wali’s Christian feast
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Read

Poetry, essays and novels explore grief in unique and very different ways.

Reading grief: Getting beyond Joan Didion
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Watch

Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.

We recommend: The best new movies and TV series
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Listen

Y’know those tunes that you instantly recognise—but just can’t name? Not any more.

What’s that song? A helpful guide to earworms
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Jannat on earth: The glory of the Mughal garden

Culture

Birds and blooms—gardens of paradise in Mughal art.

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Another POV: Books voiced by children

Read

An insightful list of books voiced by children for some meaningful reading.

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Vivaldi meets John Wick: A pop culture guide to concertos

Listen

The second of a unique series on Western Classical music—and its influence on pop culture.

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The nostalgic shaved ice of Calicut

Eat

Sweet and spicy, pickled and crunchy, ice orathi subverts every flavour expectation.

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That’s News To Me

July 19 2024

Why news is like oysters, and how that affects the subscription business of digital media.

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Bad News Rising

July 18 2024

The digital news business is slowly falling apart worldwide—because it simply doesn’t make money.

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Kota Falls

July 17 2024

India’s coaching mecca—Kota—is haemorrhaging students even as edtech flails. Wtf and why?

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Disco Queen

July 16 2024

Asha Puthli defined disco in the '70s to little credit. Forty years later, she returns to tour.

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