A list of good reads
- Dholavira was recently added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The Hindu has an excellent introduction to this Harappan-era treasure.
- Quartz’s Weekly Obsession focused on Tsundoku—and it is chock full of delightful facts and trivia about unread books.
- Curious about the new CM of Karnataka? Indian Express and The Hindu have very good profiles about the Bommai in the BJP.
- We learned a lot from this Mint Lounge piece on the connection between food—think green chilis, lemons etc—and the ‘evil eye’ in Indian tradition.
- Also in Mint Lounge: A very important read on how climate change is changing the Indian monsoon.
- Speaking of climate change, CNN offers a deep dive on how warming waters are setting off a chain reaction—a plague, an invasion and massive deforestation in our oceans.
- Wired has a fascinating report on how hackers—who create ‘phantom ships’ that show up in ship radars—are sowing chaos in international waters.
- The Guardian’s long read looks at whether lab-grown meat can save farm animals, agriculture and the planet.
- Psyche dives into the latest research on narcissists. No, they aren’t all flashy, attention-seeking fiends.
- Smithsonian magazine has a good curation on what we know about millennia-old cave art discovered in Haryana.
- India Today analyses Rahul Gandhi’s new strategy—and looks at whether he is plotting a comeback.
- Ramachandra Guha has a lovely piece in Scroll on how YouTube helped him uncover musical treasures.
- The Hindu BusinessLine has an amusing excerpt from Vir Sanghvi’s memoir, ‘A Rude Life’ where he recounts the time he and Aveek Sarkar interviewed Rajiv Gandhi in 1988.
