A list of good reads
- Raghu Karnad in Slate offers an incisive and fresh take on vaccine inequity: “Once, we talked about the First and Third Worlds. Today, it’s the vaxxed and unvaxxed.”
- Also in Slate: Jill McCabe Johnson looks back at the time she hooked up with a man who turned out to be a serial killer. Reading this gave us goosebumps.
- Somak Ghoshal in Mint Lounge reveals a surprising insight: Instagram has become the equivalent of the museum. It is how most of us encounter art.
- The Guardian has a fascinating piece on a German military project to use novels to predict the next war.
- Also in The Guardian: A loving profile of Wimbledon’s newest star: Emma Raducanu.
- Indian Express looks at BJP’s bubbling brew of internal troubles across multiple states—the latest being Uttarakhand.
- The Hindu has an important ground report on how the pandemic has destroyed the lives of sex workers.
- Aubrey Gordon in Vox pens a wonderful personal essay on being fat, being in love, and being loved.
- The Telegraph takes a close look at how much money it takes to keep the President of India in required style.
- A surprising story in Lithub tells the story of how Kurt Cobain’s favourite novel—‘Perfume’ by Patrick Süskind—made it to his final album.
- Buzzfeed News offers a scathing review of the Netflix series ‘Sex/Life’.
- Worried about those wandering elephants in China? National Geographic has a thought-provoking piece on how we can keep them safe.
