A list of good reads
- New York Times (splainer gift link) takes a look at why Hollywood studios are shelving good movies where the filming is done. Hint: taxes.
- Also in New York Times: A profile of Sobhita Dhulipala on her first tryst with Hollywood in ‘Monkey Man’.
- Prashant Keshavmurthy in Mint Lounge reviews a lovely new anthology of ancient love poems translated from Sanskrit and Prakrit.
- Zuhaib Ahmed Pirzada in Vittles Magazine has a fascinating piece on the lasting impact of colonial infrastructure—dams built by the British are still responsible for food scarcity in the Indus Delta area.
- Nature spotlights an alternate theory of evolution that focuses on cooperation instead of conflict.
- The Guardian has a disturbing report on the increasing number of elephant deaths in India due to collisions with trains. FYI: Indian elephants are an endangered species.
- BBC News has a short video report on the water crisis in the ‘wettest place on Earth’—the town Sohra in Meghalaya’s Cherrapunji.
- Andy Mukherjee in this viral Bloomberg News column looks at the North-South divide—and says some very unkind things about North India.
- The Atlantic explores humanity’s never-ending obsession with their own extinction aka the apocalypse.
- Here’s something excellent to watch: Author Michael Mauboussin on the correlation between skill and luck, and how they shape outcomes in life.
