A list of good reads
- The Indian Express offers an engaging read on how self-isolation will affect the mental health of IPL players.
- Starr Davis’ searing poem ‘Mourning Sex’ is a meditation on desire, grief and the anguish of being Black in America.
- Mint offers Jhumpa Lahiri’s pining love letter to Italy.
- Working mothers are falling behind at the workplace thanks to a mass transition to WFH. Fast Company offers a valuable guide (and clarion call to action) explaining how companies can “refuse to be complicit in setting women back generations.”
- Andy Mukherjee in Bloomberg News offers a scathing takedown of high taxes in India, and explains why the government has to “stop treating cars as though they were drugs or alcohol.”
- The Correspondent offers an invaluable interview with a suicidologist—which explains who they are and what they do.
- Sharanya Deepak in Atlas Obscura pens a wonderful essay on the Great Famine on Bengali cuisine.
- LongReads pays wonderful tribute to the ‘flaneuse’—the women who walk the streets of great cities around the world.
- A mother—whose car broke down on the highway—was raped in front of her children in Pakistan. The next day, the leading law enforcement official slut-shamed her for being out of her home after dark. BBC News reports on a case that has triggered widespread outrage in the country.