A list of good reads
- Rachel John spent 48 hours on Koo—the atmanirbhar rival to Twitter—and found pretty much what you’d expect: A right-leaning echo chamber.
- The Hindu explores the world of bookstagram—where books are not meant just to be read but admired as objects of art.
- Also in The Hindu: How giant residential schools in the Indian heartland are wiping out Adivasi culture by ‘re-educating’ tribal children.
- New Yorker offers a must-read on the psychological underpinnings of procrastination—and finds that not acting and acting impulsively arise from the exact same cause.
- Leander Paes pays heartfelt tribute to his ‘Dronacharya’—his former coach Akhtar Ali in The Telegraph.
- And ICYMI: Mohammed Kaif penned a brilliant op-ed calling out the virus of communalism that threatens to infect cricket.
- New York Times has a fascinating report on America’s top evangelical leader—Chennai-born Ravi Zacharias, who in death has been exposed as a serial sexual predator.
- Indian Express profiles the couple who are fighting for the right to become the first same-sex couple in India to get married.
- In a related read: The Cut asks why lesbians in recent movies are always shown in a repressed and distant past—their love inevitably doomed?
- The News Minute has a lovely read on the tourist guides in Telangana.
