A list of good reads

• Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has an excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated biography of Elon Musk. 
• Uzma Falak in Vittles pens a poignant essay on cooking, eating and growing up in Kashmir. (h/t subscriber Anita Rao Kashi)
• The Guardian explores the curse of a ‘frenemy’—and why we are hooked on them.
• The Atlantic, meanwhile, has a lovely essay on the need to bring back whimsy in adult friendships.
• Prarthana Puthran in The Quint reports on how political polarisation is affecting the dating life of young Indians.
• The Conversation has two good reads: one, what our hands tell us about our health and two, the little-understood problem of birth trauma.
• Lithub praises the rise of the complex, morally grey female protagonist in fiction.
• The Verge explores the latest trend of influencers venturing into the business of news—and the dangers of it.
• Eater documents the oddest food trend yet: eggs with shockingly orange yolks.
• Scroll has the story of a small gurudwara where Punjabis offer up toy planes to fulfil their dreams of moving overseas.
• Vir Sanghvi in The Print argues that hate in India has grown out of the control of the Modi government and the RSS.