A list of good reads
- Did you know that James Joyce wrote seriously raunchy (and NSFW) letters to his wife? No? Well, here you go! (Also: we really mean NSFW)
- Atlas Obscura has a wonderful story about a man who turned a window in a high-rise Mumbai flat into a butterfly garden
- Elliot Dallen is 31 and dying in the middle of a pandemic. This is what he has learned.
- Huffington Post offers an engaging read on online detectives who use technology to help solve missing person cases.
- Shoaib Daniyal in Scroll offers a fascinating look at the brutal Maratha invasion of Bengal in 1741. Did you know about that one? We certainly didn’t!
- BBC Focus has a great piece on Japanese ‘night moving’ services that help their clients to vanish from their own lives—without a trace. Or watch a 3-minute video report.
- Ronny Sen in Akademi Magazine lays out Indians’ abject failure to understand addiction.
- BBC News profiles Sangita Iyer, a woman dedicated to saving India’s temple elephants.