A list of good reads
- Canadian doctors released a new set of guidelines to define obesity that is not solely focused on body weight. Big Think lays out the debate.
- Sandip Roy’s I-Day Mint column asks: When will the Indian male be truly atmanirbhar at home?
- Also an excellent I-Day read: Bishan Singh Bedi’s meditation on the pandemic, anti-minority violence, and his memories of 1984.
- Sharanya Deepak uses the Northeastern restaurants of Humayunpur to rip apart the term ‘food city’—blithely used to describe foodie paradises like Delhi.
- Are you in a ‘situationship’ rather than a relationship? Well+Good has a list of five warning signs.
- Bombay Canteen’s Thomas Zacharias offers a guide to stocking an Indian kitchen during a lockdown.
- In The Telegraph: An illuminating history of ‘Bande Mataram’—composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in a fit of anti-colonial irritation.
- Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla has drawn plenty of media attention. But the Bloomberg profile is the only one to draw attention to his office—which is a converted Airbus A320. Definitely an entertaining read, and that lead image is something else.
- In Quartz: Tie dye is having its moment thanks to the pandemic. We have no comment.
