A list of good reads
- The New Yorker offers a thought-provoking review of two books on the morality of having kids in a “burning, drowning world.”
- Sowmya Rajendran in Film Companion looks at the Tamil cinema industry’s long history of misogyny—in the context of Mansoor Ali Khan’s remarks.
- The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza—after it was commissioned and fact-checked. So The Nation published it instead. Even if you don’t agree with the author, it’s interesting to see what gets censored these days.
- BBC News reports on the mirror version of ‘love jihad’—the ‘Bhagwa love trap’—where Hindu men seduce Muslim women.
- The Quint reports on the devastating effect of titanium dioxide pollution on Kerala marine life.
- This Wire piece by Tunku Vardarajan on the rise of jingoism in Indian cricket pissed off some fans—and perfectly expressed the views of others.
- Also going viral this week: Washington Post (splainer gift link) on the new era of self-censorship over at Netflix and Amazon in India.
- Terry Kirts’ lovely essay explores the “deep pleasures” of eating ice cream.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) explains why you’re not exactly incognito—when you’re browsing incognito.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) has a lovely column on the wisdom that comes with age: ‘At 33, I knew everything. At 69, I know something much more important’.
