A list of good reads
- Tom Nichols in The Atlantic has a hilarious take on why he doesn’t want to let go of daylight saving time. The answer: he hates morning people.
- Also in The Atlantic (splainer gift link), a look at the complicated relationship between the business of news and Big Tech.
- In the Atavist, Lily Hyde writes about the story of three women whose children were born during the Ukraine-Russia war, and how conflict tore them apart.
- Neerja Deodar reports on single and widowed friends who have decided to craft a whole new life living with their best friends.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) looks at what ‘black magic’ looks like today—and what it means to be a ‘witch’ on platforms like TikTok.
- Aparna Kapadia in Scroll looks at the cross-cultural exchanges and multitudes of influences that shaped India’s jewellery today.
- The Walrus asks a very obvious question: ‘Do We Really Need a Taylor Swift Reporter?’
- Scott Galloway looks at the wide generational gap on views of the Israel-Palestine war.
- Elle has an intriguing piece on how the fitness tracking app Strava is becoming the new dating app for runners.
- New Yorker has an excerpt from Salman Rushdie’s acceptance speech—that he gave when he won the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
- Vox looks at the life of the late Esther the Wonder Pig—a social media “pigfluencer”—who helped create a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Canada.
- Once upon a time, young people from Bihar, Agra, and Chandigarh learned Mandarin—and then came to Delhi looking for Chinese tourists. The Print reveals that they’re now looking for jobs in think-tanks, big companies and government instead.
