A long list of good reads
- Jyoti Yadav in The Print offers a feminist (and likely unpopular) take on why Sushant Singh Rajput’s family is angry at Rhea Chakraborthy.
- Shaving blades are made of one of the toughest materials in the world. So why do they get dull so quickly? Wired investigates a new breakthrough in shaving tech by a group of MIT researchers.
- Atlas Obscura takes us inside the hidden natural history museum in Mumbai.
- New York Times spotlights a strange new YouTube fad: Chore TV—“land porn for wistful cubicle dwellers.” Some American farmers now make more money from videotaping footage of their rural life than from farming.
- Town & Country has a great personal essay on the decline of the American passport—once a sign of great privilege.
- Vox explains how Ellen DeGeneres’ facade of kindness crumbled.
- A must read: The Week on why Twitter may be far worse than other social media platforms—and why it is built to bring out the worst in us.
- The Wire tracks the politicisation of the utterly, butterly Amul girl.
- Not new, but still worth your time: Mashable’s dissection of the wildly popular self-help books that have f**k in their title—but are astonishingly tame in the advice they dole out.
