A list of good reads

• Christopher Solomon in GQ writes with great clarity and tenderness of a love of a lifetime—between his father and mother. If you read nothing else on this list, read this.
• Going viral: Andy Mukherjee’s long and anguished elegy titled ‘Why I’m Losing Hope in India’—reflecting the sentiment of a generation of middle class Indians whose lives were transformed by the riches of liberalisation (and who in 2016 hoped that a ‘Gujarat model’ Modi would deliver more of the same).
• Why is the older generation—parents, uncles and aunts—the most susceptible to WhatsApp forwards and Facebook bs? Bonnie Kristian in The Week writes about how the internet “broke” the brains of a pre-digital generation.
• New Yorker delivers a scathing critique of venture capitalism—and how it has deformed capitalism.
• Katherine Finnery in The Wire points to two instances when the use of the goddess Durga drew outrage—one from rightwing Hindus and the other from liberals angry about cultural appropriation. Her argument: It’s time to stop outraging.
• The Telegraph has a lovely interview with Dimple Kapadia who is refreshingly self-deprecating about her experience filming ‘Tenet’ with Christopher Nolan.
• After meatless meat, now we have fishless fish. Outside magazine looks at the future of seafood.
• Aeon reveals how being a father changes the brains of men—and the level of testosterone in their body.