A list of good reads
- New York Times (splainer gift link) reports on Modi-ji’s domination of the airwaves.
- Kamayani Sharma in Scroll has the fascinating tale of Nino La Civita—an Italian prisoner of war who painted beautiful frescoes in a Dehradun church in 1946.
- BBC News traces standup comedian Munawar Faruqui’s journey from spending five weeks in jail for allegedly hurting Hindu sentiments in 2021 to recently winning the biggest reality show in India.
- Also in BBC News: Amada Ruggeri looks at the pressures that accompany the idealisation of ‘natural births’.
- Shephali Bhatt in Economic Times documents the effects of Instagram reels on how Indian wedding rituals are conducted.
- The Impression looks at why newsrooms have not been able to make money.
- Steffi Cao in Mixed Feelings has a thought provoking essay on the irony of older women wanting to look young—while tweens want to look grown-up.
- Maria Popova in The Marginalian draws on Henry Miller to highlight an excellent maxim: “We have to work for life too if we want life to work for us.”
- Raghu Karnad in the London Book of Reviews looks at the propaganda surrounding the search for the lost city of Indraprastha in Delhi.
- MIT Technology Review has a fascinating look at why the world’s biggest EV automaker BYD is venturing into shipping. It is an eye-opener on how global supply lines for cars work.
