A list of good reads
- FiftyTwo has a brilliant piece on Punjabi farmers toiling away in the fields of Italy—and why their dreams are souring “like curdled milk.”
- Bloomberg Businessweek spent 11 hours with Sam Bankman-Fried in his penthouse in the Bahamas right after the fall of FTX.
- Historian Ram Guha in The Telegraph revisits the reception Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ received when it was first released.
- Also in The Telegraph: Rohit Trilokekar offers his experience of the arranged shaadi circus from the point of view of an aspiring groom.
- South Asian novels—one from India and the other out of Sri Lanka—won two Bookers this year. The Guardian looks at what that means for south Asian literature.
- We stumbled upon this wonderfully written and brutally candid essay from Arthur Krystal on the truth about getting old by a 70-something in the New Yorker.
- Movies revel in plots about life-changing experiences in gorgeous, exotic locales that reboot and restore your life. Alanna Bennett in The Cut spent a month in Tuscany—and offers a real-life view of what it did for her.
- Here are two complex stories about environmental protection. Popular Science looks at how attempts to save the seals in Alaska is endangering fragile flora. Washington Post looks at whether boycotting lobsters at the dinner table can help save whales.
- Vox has an interesting guide on how to be a good gift-giver.
- The Wire has a feature on ‘18 Days: Dusk of an Era’—a performance that combines Broadway with Cirque Du Soleil sensibilities to offer a compelling retelling of the Kurukshetra war in the Mahabharata. FYI: future shows are slated for Bangalore and Goa—so you may want to check this one out.
