A list of good reads
- Nidhi Razdan on NDTV has her final say on being the most prominent victim of the Harvard scam—and the New York Times investigation into it.
- Quartz lays out how women and men take negative feedback very differently—with women far more likely to internalise it.
- The News Minute has an off-beat story on scores of YouTube videos that obsessively track South Indian movie star homes.
- A first person essay on The Cut offers a rare negative review of Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’—and explains why Puerto Ricans will never warm up to the movie.
- Bloomberg News looks at a $31 billion plan to turn a remote stretch of Siberia into a tourist attraction.
- The Atlantic explains why ‘Succession’ is like a game of Monopoly.
- Mint Lounge has a fun piece on how to embrace Pantone’s Colour of the Year—Very Peri—with great style.
- Also in Mint Lounge: Why you shouldn’t be adopting a turtle as a pet.
- Browser put together a fun collection of dishes that have very misleading names. Example: the German Chocolate cake came from New York.
- In a thought-provoking essay, Dave Pell argues that the recent controversy over Ben Affleck’s comments on the breakup of his marriage shows us how misinformation spreads—and the role played by the media.
- Want a break from the doom and gloom? Check Mashable’s list of 21 really good things that happened in 2021.
- Indian Express looks at Virat Kohli’s army of fans, ‘Viratians’—who are as fervently and angrily loyal as those of Taylor Swift.
- BuzzFeed News offers its picks for the best books of 2021—which are a little more offbeat than stodgy New York Times fare.
- The Hindu confirms our suspicions in its review of ‘Decoupled’—it’s classic Manu Joseph fare, and replicates all his favourite peeves. Example: male feminists.
- For design nerds: Architectural Digest has a list of the 12 most anticipated buildings of 2022.
- The Atlantic offers excellent advice on how to procrastinate productively—which sounds like an oxymoron but is not.
- Staying with the theme, Psyche offers a guide on how to channel your boredom.
- A highly recommended watch on Dealbook: WeWork founder Adam Neumann offers a lesson in PR rehabilitation in his first public interview since his spectacular fall.
- Aeon has a great read on the birth of “world literature” as a genre—which started with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s interest in Chinese novels and Kalidasa’s ‘Shakuntala’.
