A list of good reads

• BBC News reports on why Zomato’s promise to deliver your fave dish from an Indian city far far away isn’t worth it.
• In The Verge, Ellis Hamburger—who worked for Snapchat—explains why social media is “doomed to die.”
• Also in The Verge, David Pierce explains why ultra-long YouTube highlight videos are ruining sports—and that’s okay.
• New Yorker profiles Indian American congressman Ro Khanna—who went from being part of Bernie Sanders anti-corporate campaign to a Silicon Valley darling.
• Lata Jha in Mint looks at Disney+ Hotstar’s battle for survival. Fun fact: Koffee With Karan raked in more viewers than HBO content on the platform! 😲
• File this under why the splainer fam is really awesome! The Hindu reports on founding member Anish Malpani who launched the super cool start-up Ashaya. It makes sunglasses using recycled chip packets.
• Scroll has an interesting meditation on reading complex literary texts like Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas.
• Science Alert has a fascinating yet disturbing report: the world’s biggest garbage patch is so massive that it is now a cosy home for invasive coastal species.
• This lovely interactive feature by the New York Times (splainer gift link) looks at the “world’s most beautiful” calendar hand-drawn by French artists in 1410.
• Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has a whole different kind of personality quiz: ‘What Does Your iPhone Color Say About You?’