A list of good reads
- Times of India reports on the unfortunate downsizing of Indian NGOs like Greenpeace and Amnesty that were affected by the FCRA purge.
- Reuters has a report on why young Indians are desperate to find “stable” government jobs, despite growing vacancies in the private sector.
- Vox examines the sexist perception of Usha Vance as a damsel-in-distress, rather than a willing participant in her husband JD Vance’s political ideology.
- Indian Express profiles political aspirant Manorama Khedkar, while her trainee IAS officer daughter Puja Khedkar remains embroiled in controversy.
- Psyche looks at the history of schadenfreude across cultures, to try and uncovery why we feel happy seeing others’ misfortunes.
- Michelle Santiago Cortés in Dirt writes on how the GenZ TikTok trend of bed rotting is a rejection of the Millennial hustle culture.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) has an exposé on Sebastián Marset—a Paraguayan footballer who ran a narco empire.
- Freethink interviews angel investor Matthew Ball, to understand what the term ‘metaverse’ means and why it’s the future of the internet as we know it.
- Paris Review has a detailed view of the evolution of doodling, from absent-minded scribbles on paper, to a more detailed activity in the internet age.
- Women’s Health has a surprising read on the development of eating disorders in older women as a side effect of menopause.
