A list of good reads
- The Ringer has the mostly true—and bizarre—story of Vanilla Ice, the man who cursed us with ‘Ice, Ice Baby!’
- The ‘quantum internet’ will bring us unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light. Discover magazine explains.
- Quartz offers an excellent deep dive on Gurgaon—which has become a model of how not to build a city.
- Vice reports on violent gang wars between monkeys in India—and why they are killing people.
- Anita Rao Kashi in Asia Nikkei looks at the rise of ‘revenge travel’—yes, it’s real and likely to explode in the coming months.
- Bangalore Mirror has the delightful story of the gynecologist who delivered a preemie on an Indigo flight.
- Aruna Chandrasekhar in The Guardian offers a brilliant corrective to our obsession with carbon emissions—and the fatal flaw of the ongoing climate change discourse.
- Huffington Post India put together a collection of excellent and necessary pieces on mental health in India—all of which are collated on this handy Twitter thread.
- The police in the Hathras case have pivoted to blaming the victim and her family. Another must-read in Huffington Post reveals this is standard practice in caste killings.
- Elle UK has a fun read on the rise of the ‘one month stand’—because we can no longer risk the joys of the ‘one night’ kind.
- Is emotional intelligence more important than your IQ? Inc. looks at a fascinating thought experiment that proves it is better to be a butterfly than a genius.