A list of good reads
- We loved this little essay revisiting the author’s childhood memories of the monsoons in a Kerala village.
- Variety has everything you want to know about the Broadway musical version of DDLJ. FYI: in this iteration, the unsuitable suitor is an American guy—and the cast is truly multinational.
- The Atlantic has an engaging take on generational wars written by a Millennial increasingly under siege from snarky Gen Z types.
- Also in The Atlantic: the confusing medical debate over fish oil. Is it good for you or a terrible idea?
- Speaking of good nutrition, we found this Mint Lounge guide to legumes—chickpeas, dals etc—very useful. Surprisingly so, given that most of these kinds of articles rehash the same territory.
- The Guardian reports on the phenomenon of ‘quiet quitting’—where you don’t resign but do the bare minimum required. Umm, Indian babus could do a Ted talk on this one.
- South China Morning Post profiles a single man who is challenging India’s surrogacy laws—which ban single men from having surrogate kids.
- NewsLaundry has a very interesting report on the rising threat of sexpionage to the Indian military.
- This Indian Express op-ed looks at women politicians and their controversial handbags—be it Mayawati or, most recently, Mahua Moitra who got flack for her LV.
- Prashant Baid offers an eye-opening analysis of fake IMDB movie credits created by Indians—which leads down a rabbit hole of Google search scams.
- Finally, someone has written a piece on the history of the greatly beloved chilli cheese toast. That someone being Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times.
- The latest TikTok trend involves yoga poses that claim to release hidden emotional trauma. Allure looks at whether there is any truth to these claims.
