A list of good reads
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) offers a thought-provoking piece on ‘journalistic objectivity’ and whether it still has a place in newsrooms today.
- Shruti Jain in Scroll offers an important first person account on the sinking of Joshimath in Uttarakhand—and it is more powerful than many of the ground reports.
- Imogen West-Knights in The Guardian tries to solve a big dating puzzle: why don’t straight men write about their experiences on sex and dating—while straight women can’t seem to stop.
- Also in The Guardian: an excellent feature on a group of Indian women rappers called ‘Wild Wild Women’. (h/t founding member Kruthika Ravi Kumar)
- Vox has an interesting take on ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’—which is raking in billions of dollars and yet no one is talking about it.
- FiftyTwo traces the complicated history of one of India’s most politically important and prosperous cities for over two centuries—Bijapur in Karnataka. (h/t founding member Basreena Basheer)
- The latest gross TikTok trend involves drooling and spitting on camera. Slate has all the deets on “SpitTok”.
- The creators of ChatGPT proudly released a tool that is supposed to identify text written by an AI bot. Unfortunately—as Buzzfeed News reports—it works only about one in four times .
- Vijayta Lalwani has an insightful report in Queerbeat on the invisible sorrows of ageing LGBTQ+ folks in the country.
- This is a disturbing must-watch: A Deutsche-Welle documentary on the rise of ‘Hindutva Pop’.
