A list of good reads
- Here’s a very good read for Independence Day: Khushwant Singh’s unsentimental and witty column: ‘Why I am an Indian’.
- The Indian media is obsessed with biz layoffs, but what happens to employees who lose their jobs because their NGO shut due to new rules? India Development Review offers an eye-opening look. (h/t founding member Akanksha Sharma)
- StatNews offers a fascinating look at one of the side effects of dementia: an explosion of artistic creativity.
- Bloomberg Businessweek traces the relationship between procrastination and work.
- Scroll has a lovely tribute to late Telugu poet Gummadi Vittal Rao, known as Gaddar, and his contribution to the tradition of revolutionary songs.
- The Atlantic looks at the resurgence of the age-old tradition of matchmaking post the release of Netflix series ‘Indian Matchmaking’.
- InfoAmazonia deep dives into the extensive underworld network that operates out of the Amazon rainforests—smuggling jungle resources and narcotics.
- The Playbook has the sad tale of how no network is really interested in the broadcast rights of the Indian Super League—India’s premier football league.
- Atlas Obscura has a lovely feature on how the perfumers in Kannauj capture the smell of rain for a ‘mitti attar’.
- CNET has an interesting report on the over 500 cables located at the bottom of the ocean that are the “lifeblood” of the internet globally.
- Shrayana Bhattacharya in Mint Lounge writes on masculine fragility in India and its recent cinematic depiction of it in movies like ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’ and ‘Barbie’.
