A list of good reads

• Sandip Roy in Mint Lounge pens a thoughtful column on a knee-jerk liberalism that relies on handy images—like those of Zakir Hussain at Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma’s funeral.
• Scroll used paintings to solve the intriguing mystery of where exactly Tipu Sultan died.
• Also in Scroll: Why the tiny Dogra Rajput community in Kashmir has become a target for terrorists.
• AI can now write poetry, but is it any good? And can humans tell the difference? Walrus investigates.
• Scientists, sci-fi authors and futurists offer their predictions about what we’ll eat in the future in Bon Appétit.
• NPR offers a useful “life kit” to overcome that feeling of FOMO.
• The Cut looks at why so many people don’t believe Amber Heard’s accusations against Johnny Depp.
• Do people gravitate towards the work that their name suggests? Example: Usain Bolt. The newsletter Secretum Secretorum looks at the relationship between name and destiny.
• Ian Leslie lays out the seven kinds of stupidity—and many are very familiar.
• Shephali Bhatt in Mint looks at the rise of AR filters in the creator economy in India.
• Watch this Article14 video where journalists talk about the exhausting and frightening experience of reporting on hate crimes.
• BBC News has an important piece on tea workers in Assam—who are dying because of poisonous mushrooms.
• Also in BBC News: The death of ‘mandatory fun’ in offices. Think birthday parties and happy hours.
• The Guardian looks at the question of who owns Albert Einstein’s face.