A list of good reads
- The Atlantic offers a thought-provoking essay on what deepfaking voices will do to politics. On a happier AI note: Experience Magazine looks at whether AI can perfect the India Pale Ale (IPA).
- The Guardian has the harrowing story of Nisar Ahmed—a Muslim man who stepped up as a witness in the 2020 Delhi riots case which turned his life into a nightmare.
- Also in The Guardian, a heartfelt tribute to actor Tom Sizemore—best known for movies like ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’—who died on Saturday after a brain aneurysm.
- Scroll has a must-read report from Daman—where a 400-year-old church may be demolished to “beautify” a football ground.
- Anirudh Kanisetti in The Print offers a fascinating look at sophisticated medieval hospitals run by Buddhists in Sri Lanka.
- Quartz has a great piece on a recent trend in publishing: women are writing more books than men—which is actually good for the industry.
- New Lines Magazine offers a fascinating history lesson on how famous authors protected their copyright before there was such a thing as ‘copyright’.
- Rolling Stones has a must-read investigation on the proliferation of hate music playlists on Spotify and Apple Music.
- Anticipating the Unintended has an interesting deep dive into why the Indian electorate not does not prioritise growth while picking their netas.
- Most of us had a crush on our teacher as kids in school. Jessica L Pavia in Longreads pens a first-person essay on this teenage infatuation fraught with great risk.
