A list of good reads
- Scroll files a ground report on minorities in Kashmir who are feeling betrayed by the silence of Kashmiri Muslims on the recent civilian killings.
- For a thoughtful analysis of the killings, read Kashmir Times editor Anuradha Bhasin in The India Forum.
- Between 1961 and 1971, thousands of languages vanished from Indian census data. BBC Future offers an excellent long read on the race to find and preserve these hidden languages.
- Something to pique your curiosity: Mint Lounge on the only Goan food store in Karachi.
- BuzzFeed News looks at the bizarre fashionista obsession with the ‘nap dress’—which, to be frank, looks like an upmarket iteration of the great Indian nightie.
- If you didn’t get around to streaming ‘Sardar Udham’ over the weekend, you may want to check out this rave review in Mint by Uday Bhatia—who describes it as “unlike any other film on the freedom struggle.”
- LongReads asks a very important question about James Bond: “How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?”
- Sara Reinis in Real Life pens a thought-provoking essay on how social media has reshaped our relationship with death and mourning.
- Vulture did a wonderful job of profiling Kumail Nanjiani—which touches on an unlikely subject for an actor playing a superhero: body image.
- BBC News offers a useful and illuminating explainer on the next big thing in big tech: metaverse.
- Jacob Goldstein in TIME magazine offers an interesting take on the history of money—and what’s coming next.
- Jon Stokes offers a very interesting take on why so many of us today easily believe “outlandish” theories—and think that our world is ‘rigged’.
