A list of good reads
- Esses Magazine turns the clock back to the Le Mans disaster of 1955—racing’s deadliest day that changed motorsports forever.
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) has a must-read about the ‘manopause’—i.e. male midlife challenges—and what it says about the gender gap.
- Also in Financial Times (paywalled): a cool profile of Somaya Critchlow—one of the most talented painters of her generation—who specialises in artworks of black women.
- Al Jazeera breaks down this year’s Bollywood trend of ‘old is gold’—why the industry is turning to re-releases amid a string of flops.
- The India Forum picks apart William Dalrymple’s ‘The Golden Road’—arguing that it simply replaces Euro-American-centrism with Indocentrism, ignoring the importance of cross-cultural exchanges and knowledge produced out of labour.
- The Hindu has a must-read on ‘Band, Baaja, Baaraat’ heist gangs, who go undercover at fancy wedding baaraats in Delhi to steal valuables.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has a disturbing but important read on how India's sugarcane farm workers risk kidnapping, assault and murder if they try to quit their abusive jobs.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has a fascinating investigation of an ever-deepening scandal in US business schools, involving falsified data in dozens of academic papers.
- Also in The Atlantic (login required): an amusing read on why Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill and end their obsession with vacuum cleaning.
- New York Magazine makes a compelling case against deli meats—no matter how convenient or tasty—in light of a recent disease outbreak from filthy processing plants.
- Reuters has an informative interactive piece mapping out how the MPox virus spreads, mutates and attacks humans.
- New Lines Magazine has an eye-opening piece on the gendered battle over the ban on pornographic deepfakes—and digital sexual abuse—in South Korea.
