A looong list of good reads
- BBC News takes a closer look at why child malnutrition is rising across India.
- Economist’s 1843 magazine has a brilliant long read on Monowara Begum—who was trafficked into Bangladesh’s oldest brothel as a child, and now runs it!
- We all think that the human community started out as groups of wandering egalitarian hunter-gatherers, wired for small groups and sharing. And it explains how our brains are wired. Aeon explains why that widely accepted origin myth is actually false.
- Washington Post reports on the new psychological disease birthed by the pandemic: Coronaphobia. Sound depressing? Ok, how about the Paris Review on Corona porn?
- New York Times has a must read on the great fall of a great football club Barcelona.
- Looking for a bit of insider goss? Washingtonian spoke to employees of Trump’s hotel in Washington DC—who had to wait on him and his friends for the past four years.
- Speaking of US presidents, CNN has a delightful illustrated guide to presidential pets in the White House—which included Thomas Jefferson’s bear cubs!
- GEN argues that it’s time to start cold-calling your friends.
- What was it like eating with Anthony Bourdain? Laurie Woolever offers a surprising peek in Food & Wine.
- Vinay Aravind’s essay in Fifty Two on Indian cinema theatres' transition from old-fashioned film reels to digital projection is highly recommended lunchtime reading.
- IndiaSpend’s interview with Priya Ramani and her lawyer Rebecca John offers a personal account of the MJ Akbar ordeal.
- The Hindu pays tribute to the National Cricket Academy which has incubated many of our greatest players.