A list of good reads

• Arianne Shahvisi in The Guardian has a wonderful essay on his childhood holidays to Tehran—framed by a Harry Potter analogy that is impossible to summarise.
• INC offers a thought-provoking piece on why Elon Musk can work 180 hours a week—and the key connection between fun and work.
• The India Forum makes a strong scientific argument for reopening schools.
• GQ reports on the fashion explosion triggered by ‘Squid Game’.
• Input magazine offers a fascinating trip into the world of audio porn.
• Now that Air India has been bought by the Tatas, BBC News offers a timely read on its colourful history.
• Aeon makes a strong case for a therapeutic practice called ‘chairwork’.
• Apoorva Tadepalli in Guernica pays tribute to the art of writing about the ordinary and the every day—a skill first learned in Bangalore.
• BBC Travel profiles the five safest cities in the world—which is always useful, especially for women travellers.
• Farhad Manjoo makes a case for audio books—and why they do not spell the end of reading in the New York Times via The Telegraph.
• Indian Express profiles the drug enforcement officer—Sameer Wankhede—who has been key to both the Aryan Khan and Rhea Chakraborty investigations.
• The Guardian offers a very useful deep dive into ‘menopause brain’—which looks at the latest research on how changing hormones affect women.
• BBC News has the lovely story of a super-fan of El Salvador’s football team who has just been hired as their scout.