A list of good reads
- Indian Express reports on how Bengaluru’s K Karthik brought photo booths back to life with the setting up of India’s first vintage photo booth—powered by Apple’s 90s classic—the QuickTake 100.
- BBC News visits the world of Windows survivors—ancient PCs still chugging along in a modern tech age.
- Also from BBC News: PK Rosy, Malayalam cinema’s first female lead, dared to break caste barriers in the 1920s—only to have her legacy buried by discrimination.
- Relief spreads across Kashmir after the Pahalgam terror attack, but BBC News spoke to families on both sides of the border who are mourning the dead.
- Carbon Copy asks: As Trump’s trade war heats up, can the Global South ditch the superpowers and bet on self-reliance and regional trade?
- Aeon explores the history of underground parking and what it reveals about postwar policy.
- Oscars season is long gone but Viviana Freyer in Public Books pens an illuminating essay on rebuilding, repatriation, and the false antidote of making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) in ‘The Brutalist’.
- Former Reuters reporter Lesley Chamberlain in Financial Times (splainer gift link) gives an account of her life as a Soviet food spy.
- Good Food Movement has an enlightening feature on Sasbani—a small Kumaoni village in Uttarakhand that’s found a new lease of life in boosting local produce.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has a guest essay from California-based carpenter Alec Frydman on a wild first time go at commercial fishing—his boat sank, his captain died, and he drifted alone in the Pacific.
- Alim Kheraj in New York Times (splainer gift link) pens a cautionary tale about getting duped by designer fakes.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) reports on Bitcoin’s brutal side—criminals are targeting crypto execs and their families with violent attacks, pushing the rich for ransom.
