A list of good reads
- An entertaining throwback read: The Print republishes a 1985 interview of Kishore Kumar by Pritish Nandy. You never know what he’s going to say next.
- Elizabeth Goodspeed in It’s Nice That argues for the importance of good taste in design at a time when AI will spit out any image you like.
- Speaking of AI, CNBC reports on the tech splurge on AI chips that has companies in a spending ‘arms race’.
- The Guardian explains how the Japanese tea powder matcha took over the world.
- Also in The Guardian: an excerpt from Rahul Bhatia’s book ‘The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy’—where he interviews former RSS member and true believer Partha Banerjee.
- Dvora Myers in The Verge decodes why international gymnastics bodies are gravitating to AI tools like Judging Support System (JSS) to evaluate performance. The piece has colourful illustrations by Samar Haddad.
- NPR has a sweet report on “Olympic muffin man” Henrik Christiansen—a Norwegian swimmer whose obsession with chocolate muffins is catching everyone’s fancy.
- Scroll has a delightful read on the sub-tradition of writing cat-poetry in Urdu, through the works of Mir and Ghalib.
- Sherwood looks at why clicker games like “Banana” are the future of video games, even though they’re played by more bots than humans.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has the scoop on the breakup between besties—Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
