smart & curious
A list of good reads
- The health reporter for the Dainik Bhaskar threw himself off the fourth floor of a Covid hospital. NewsLaundry offers a balanced investigation into what happened.
- Two good reads on caste in Silicon Valley: This New York Times op-ed by Yashica Dutta. This well-reported deep dive from The Wire.
- The Print profiles the shrillest warmonger on television: Major General GD Bakshi.
- The Economist looks at off-the-wall but very real efforts to save the planet from climate change by bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction.
Two tricks of the eye
The levitating man: Twitter was awash with clips of street performers mysteriously levitating in various parts of the world. This is how they do it.
Train to where? Is this train coming towards or away from you?
