A list of good reads
- Saarthak Gupta in Asterisk Magazine looks at the housing crisis in Mumbai— where half the city’s population lives on 12% of land.
- MIT Press Reader has an interesting piece on the centuries-old history of universal basic income.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has the bitter debate sparked by a Columbia professor who claims to have discovered evidence of a lost sacred text with clues to Jesus’s sexuality.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) looks at the changing meaning of the word ‘viral’ in today’s era of ‘viralflation’.
- The Marginalian has a lovely feature on the secret life of chocolate.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has a handy list on the most popular coffee-making myths.
- The Guardian reviews Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel ‘Until August’—and likes it a lot better than its author.
- Aeon offers a thought-provoking essay that traces the parallels between philosophy and folktales.
- Ashok Swain in Scroll writes on his encounters with the Indian intelligence agency, who attempted to cancel his OCI card. FYI: Our Big Story on OCI cards looks at how people who were “overseas citizens” yesterday are now “foreign nationals.”
- Michael D Bailey in The Conversation unpacks the origins of a ‘witch on a broomstick’, which was introduced to European Christian society in the 1400s.
