A list of good reads
- BBC News has the inspiring life story of US judge Surendran Pattel who used to sell hand-rolled cigarettes in India.
- If you can’t be bothered to read Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’, John Crace in The Guardian offers a hilarious recap—in the signature writing style of the angst-ridden prince.
- The Guardian also has something for your non-fic bucket list: famous authors picked eight books that altered their worldview.
- Nature has a must-read on the lack of caste diversity at India’s top educational institutions—with data and graphs.
- Jezebel has the bizarre tale of an indie romance author who faked her suicide in 2020 and then reappeared two years later on her Facebook, declaring “Let the Fun Begin.”
- A World War-era secret chest, “a smooth-talking con artist” and a blackmail plot—this story in France24 about the French foreign intelligence agency is straight out of a spy novel.
- FiftyTwo takes a closer look at the claim that Sanskrit is a perfect language for computer programming and AI research.
- This New Yorker review of Egyptian comic artist Deena Mohamed’s debut graphic novel ‘Shubeik Lubeik’ made us want to run out and buy the book.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) reports on the rise of employment scams that have been targeting workers who were recently laid off from the tech industry.
- This lovely essay by Kelly McMasters in The Atlantic offers a meditation on what grey squirrels can teach us about successful marriages.
- Aanchal Malhotra has a great piece over on LitHub on her attempt to turn the oral history of the Partition into fiction.
