A list of good reads
- New York Times (splainer gift link) looks at the hot new place for young Indians to be seen—literature festivals!
- Also in New York Times: a look inside the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hotline—how this legal services company is now the central collection point for sexual assault allegations against the rapper.
- Al Jazeera has a detailed report on Bollywood’s dirty secret killing what’s left of the industry’s credibility—paid reviews!
- Featuring interviews with the director of Oscar-winning ‘Flow’ and other upstart animators, The Guardian explores how the animated film artform has entered a new era.
- Veena Venugopal in Financial Times (splainer gift link) writes on how the growth of gold loans in India has coincided with a record high number of defaults.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) traces the scientific quest to reverse human aging—featuring the reprogramming of genes.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) attempts to understand the latest social media trend—who is posting all these photoshopped JD Vance memes?
- ‘Um’, ‘huh?’, ‘mm-hmm’ users rejoice! Ars Technica has an essay arguing for the valuable role of such interjections.
- CNN tracks the hunt for Ukraine’s stolen artworks—three years into the Russian invasion.
- Public Books has an illuminating cultural history lesson on ‘Origine Asiatique’—anticolonial and communist Chinese immigrants who established Paris’ first Asian-majority neighbourhood.
- Aeon breaks down what it means to be a ‘highly sensitive’ person—how they think more deeply with greater empathy, but face significant challenges.
- Featuring some cool photography, BBC News takes you on a wild road to Leadville, Colorado—the highest-altitude city in North America.
