A list of good reads
- With multiple things going wrong all at once, Thomas Homer-Dixon in Vox asks if we are living in a time of ‘polycrisis’.
- Bloomberg Businessweek maps the Ozempic effect—which describes how the new weight loss drug is transforming entire industries—including the market for expensive drugs for kidney and heart ailments.
- A related read: The Print reports on private luxury clinics offering semaglutide (the generic term for Ozempic) to desperate, rich Indians.
- Also in The Print: Shruti Kapila looks at whether Rahul Gandhi can link aspirations to the caste census to take on the BJP.
- New Yorker looks at a new book ‘Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence’—and the importance of giving your body time to recover and recuperate.
- Mint Lounge pays tribute to Waheeda Rehman—the first Muslim woman to win the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award—and her unparalleled filmography.
- The Pudding has a great visual essay on the evolution of romance novel covers.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) decodes what it takes to live to an extremely old age.
- Catherine Pearson in New York Times (splainer gift link) debunks eight of the most common sex myths.
- Scroll has an interesting read on how food was often a source of suspicion, anxiety and rumour in British India.
- Bloomberg News has a disturbing read on how fake parts have infiltrated aircraft of Boeing and Airbus.
