A list of good reads
- The Statesman analyses the curious case of why ‘Oppenheimer’ has been much more successful in Indian box offices than ‘Barbie’.
- Speaking of ‘Oppenheimer’, Grazia has a succinct piece on how the ill-placed obsession over Cillian Murphy’s weight loss for the movie is a symptom of toxic diet culture.
- Deepa Natarajan Lobo in the News Minute pays tribute to the good ol’ puff and Bangalore’s obsession with it.
- Rebecca F Kuang in The Guardian dives into perennial toxicity and drama surrounding Goodreads.
- Sandip Roy in BBC News has a lovely essay on the first Pride march in India that was held in Kolkata in 1999.
- The Atlantic looks at three reasons why Elon Musk took the absurd and highly unpopular decision of rebranding Twitter to X.
- Hindustan Times analyses how the new opposition alliance INDIA will impact the upcoming 2024 elections.
- The Wire has an eye-opening account of how a Rohingya family were brought out to their baby’s last rites in handcuffs at a detention centre in Jammu and Kashmir.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has an interesting read on how Jeff Bezos has become more hands-on with the operations of Washington Post—a newspaper he bought 10 years ago.
- Cricket Monthly has an entertaining read on how MS Dhoni became Thalaivar in Tamil Nadu.
