A list of good reads

• Buzzfeed News did an exposé on Vogue Brazil. Moral of this story: ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ isn’t quite as fun in real life.
• Mint has a must-read on Indian LinkedIn—where the desperation and anger triggered by the economic pain is plain to see. Upside: a band of good samaritans trying to help.
• Acclaimed novelist Jesmyn Ward writes a moving essay on losing her husband to Covid in Vanity Fair.
• Quartz assesses the chances of the two behemoths—Reliance and Amazon—racing to win India’s $700 billion retail market.
• The Swaddle offers a smart take on how we’ve misunderstood and misused the phrase ‘pathological liar’. 
• Everything you are feeling right now—in the midst of the shitshow we call reality—is summed up by an ancient Greek word called ‘acedia’. The Conversation explains what it means.
• This Axios piece offers a fresh take on a well-known subject—outlining seven feedback loops that sustain climate change. It’s like a snowball, feeding on itself and getting bigger as it goes along.