A list of good reads
- Architectural Digest profiles the nine grande dames of craft in India. (h/t founding member Ruchika Chanana)
- The New Yorker pays tribute to the underappreciated aesthetic of ‘The Simpsons’. Yes, the aesthetic.
- Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times offers a no-nonsense and bracing take on the dish that always sparks bitter debate: the biryani.
- Indian Express tells a fascinating story of how the discovery of a dead newborn baby sparked a series of horrific revelations—which involve a Facebook prank gone terribly wrong.
- National Geographic’s photo essay is a powerful take on rising temperatures around the world—at a time when it is becoming “too hot to live.”
- Looking to expand your Spotify playlist? Rest Of World offers a very useful weekly curation of songs from around the world—including Palestine, Nepal and Nigeria.
- This older Thrillist piece asks a very good question: Where are the vegetarian cooking shows?
- Indian Express has a really funny (and accurate) call-out of every adult who complains about all those entitled kids.
- The Walrus offers a hilarious essay on the “smelly” side of attraction—with an account of a smell-dating event in Russia where people sniff each other’s armpits.
- Veronika Melkozerova writes in Vice about working as a translator for an international matchmaking agency—and what she learned about creepy older American men.
- The Atlantic takes a new and controversial documentary on Anthony Bourdain for glossing over the less-pleasant bits. Examples: his heroin addiction and hypermasculine persona.
