A list of good reads
- This week, Salman Rushdie returned to public view after the brutal attack on him in the best way possible. He shared an excerpt—titled ‘A Sackful of Seeds’—from his new novel ‘Victory City’ published in the New Yorker.
- Premankur Biswas in Indian Express writes of the loneliness of being queer in Gujarat.
- The News Minute takes on the depictions of plus-sized characters in films—who are either unhealthy, desexualised, or offered up as comic relief.
- Atavist Magazine has a haunting and beautifully reported essay on the honour killings of three Afghan women in a remote area of Greece.
- Is your taste in music truly personal—and how is it shaped by the marketing tactics of the likes of Spotify? The Guardian offers some interesting answers.
- Cat lovers will likely not forgive us for sharing Gizmodo’s list of 10 species driven toward extinction by cats.
- Scroll has an excellent column on the many penalties wreaked on Indian women who choose not to take their husband’s surname.
- Also in Scroll, something for history buffs: the first instalment in a series tracing the history and decline of the Indo-Persian language in India.
- MIT Technology Review reports on how Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts.
- Bloomberg Businessweek profiles the richest family in the world—the secretive Al Nahyan family which owns Manchester City and has invested big in SpaceX and Savage X Fenty.
