A list of good reads
- Jennifer Homans in New Yorker traces the roots of Odissi—and highlights performers like Bijayini Satpathy who are interrogating its colonial roots.
- Rafay Mahmood in Himal Southasian looks at Shah Rukh Khan’s fraying relationship with his Pakistani fans.
- Yasmin Tayag in The Atlantic lays out why ‘plant-based’ is becoming the new ‘organic’ or ‘gluten-free’—as in, “overused to oblivion”.
- Also in The Atlantic (splainer gift link), Jacob Sweet lays out his objection to voice notes. The answer: “The best conversations are an exchange.”
- Morning light is crucial for happiness. Vox tells you how to get it—even if you hate waking up early.
- Jacob Baynham in Neoma Magazine has an intriguing piece on the birth of the concept of money—and what its future demise may look like.
- Move over Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and the fitness app Strava, the hottest dating app in town is LinkedIn (?!!). Kelli María Korducki in Business Insider explores why and how.
- Deanxit is a contested psychiatric drug approved without clinical data: Scroll explains why India failed to ban it.
- Also in Scroll: Historian Ramachandra Guha takes aim at Chief Justice Chandrachud and his temple-hopping.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) offers a thought-provoking look at SATs and other standardised tests—and why getting rid of them may have worsened the income divide.
