smart & curious
A list of intriguing weekend timepass
The Atlas of Prejudice website is chock full of delights like this one. Be sure to wander over on a lazy Saturday morning.
Wanna go to Mauritius? It will be a very long time before we can hop on a plane and head to distant shores. But this stunning 360° photographic ‘street map’ of the country will let you hang on the beach for a little while. You can use your finger on an iPad or phone. On a laptop, hit the little play button for a panoramic view of any location.
The Museumwallas’ insta account recreates the Indian version of the Getty Museum Challenge. Yes, this is folks at home recreating famous Indian works of art. Some are goofy, others are gorgeous. But all of it is very good Sunday am timepass.
A list of sex/love reads
- Dipti Nagpaul in Vice has an excellent must-read on the rise of soft-core streaming content in India—and the weird silence that surrounds it. We truly had no idea.
- Plus: two good reads about love in the time of a pandemic. The Print on the rise of sexting and ‘date drives’ in India and a longer and excellent Slate read on the physical awkwardness of socially distanced dates.
- Check out the stunning black nudes of Somaya Critchlow over at Artsy.
And here’s the best of the rest
- Mint explains why the Indian art world has been slow to go digital in a socially distanced world—unlike museums and galleries elsewhere.
- Piyasree Dasgupta in Huffington Post looks at the overlooked collateral damage of Trump’s war on Indian techies—their wives.
- Tom Chivers pens a lovely essay explaining his mad love for the game in ‘The nerd’s guide to football’.
- When you have some time this weekend, be sure to listen to some of the biggest names in independent media—Dhanya Rajendran, Sidharth Vardarajan, Abhinandan Sekhri and Naresh Fernandes—answer that burning Q: Is the press free in India? Their answers may surprise you.
