A long list of good reads
- The Wire offers three must-read stories of Rohingya women who fled detention camps in Jammu.
- BBC News looks at the silencing around menopause in India—and the ways series like 'Bombay Begums' help break it.
- Who are you willing to take health advice from? The Hindu has an engaging book excerpt from ‘Change: How To Make Big Things Happen’ by Damon Centola that tried to answer that question.
- Sevanti Ninan in The Telegraph calls out the inane and unhelpful Indian media coverage of elections.
- Also in The Telegraph: An interesting look at the risqué pleasures of 19th century Battala literature.
- Another historical read: Indian Express looks at ‘puttu’—a dish served in Kochi to appease the spirits of African slaves.
- New York Times has a lovely piece by Cosimo Bizzarri who ruminates about the pleasures of getting lost as he walks the world’s largest labyrinth, Labirinto della Masone.
- The India Forum looks at a delightful Insta handle dedicated to capturing women at leisure.
- Aeon magazine asks: Is ‘natural’ always ‘healthy’ when it comes to food?
- Hope Wabuke in the LA Review of Books calls out the shocking absence of black characters in cartoons for kids.
- Siddhartha Sharma is an avid bird-watcher—and he pens this absolute must-read on the ‘Great Himalayan Plastic Crisis’ in Nature in Focus.
- Want to feel better about the future? Read The Guardian’s deep dive into scientists who are re-greening some of the most arid parts of the planet.
- There’s a natural relationship between the wellbeing of bumble bees and the abundance of cats. Stefano Mancuso explains what it is—and why humans are wrong to modify the presence of a single species while ignoring its inter-connectedness to others.
- The Hindu has a very good interview with Kobad Ghandy, the bestselling author of ‘Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir.’