A list of good reads

• Menaka Doshi in BloombergQuint looks at what the ‘yogi’ scandal (explained here) tells us about the National Stock Exchange. Hint: None of it is good.
• Business Insider has a very good piece on Spotify’s splashy deals with celebs—and why most of them have fallen apart.
• The job market for techies—especially in the US—is so red hot that folks are turning down offers because the company uses the ‘wrong’ productivity tools. Protocol has this eye roll-inducing story.
• The craze for cryptocurrency is causing all sorts of mental health issues. Quartz looks at the new cottage industry of therapy for crypto addicts.
• The Quartz podcast has an interesting discussion on how Google Docs became a tool of political dissent.
• South China Morning Post reports on how China is deploying military drones everywhere it wants to project its presence—from the Himalayas to the South China Sea.
• BBC News has the story of reality star Ashutosh Kaushik who is fighting in the High Court for his ‘right to be forgotten’.
• No one really knows the identity of the anonymous Q—who is behind the powerful rightwing group QAnon. New York Times reports on evidence turned up by linguistic detectives—who point their finger at two men.
• BoomLive offers an illuminating read on the 'influencer' life of an 11-year-old Rashi Shinde—whose fame has also brought with it a tsunami of abuse.
• TheNextWeb looks at research that shows all human brains are wired for math—irrespective of what your school exam scores may suggest.
• Article 14’s report on the arrest of Fahad Shah—editor of The Kashmir Walla—is a must-read.
• Speaking of the crisis in Indian media, The News Minute looks at the suicide of veteran photojournalist T Kumar—which reveals how journalists are being squeezed by management.
• Vice goes inside a Whatsapp group for Indian men whose wives left them for new lives in Canada.