A list of good reads
- Naseeruddin Shah in Indian Express laments how the touchiness of the offence-taking brigade is bordering on the absurd—in light of the controversy around Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Sardaar Ji 3’.
- The Hindu pays a visit to actor Saira Banu’s ancestral home in Delhi’s Ajmeri Gate area—a piece of history crushed between memory and decay.
- Scroll offers a history lesson on fifteenth century India—through the eyes of a Genoan merchant.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) profiles visual artist Viraj Khanna’s new exhibition at Los Angeles’ Rajiv Menon Contemporary—offering a loving, satirical look at the desi shaadi.
- BBC News takes the road to El Zonte—a quiet beach town in El Salvador that became a bitcoin testbed in 2019.
- Psychiatry professor Margaret Sibley in Aeon makes the case for rethinking adult ADHD—amid rising cases in the US.
- Spencer J Weinreich in Public Books draws parallels between opera and the mystery novel—including ample tolerance for the preposterous.
- Good Food Movement analyses how climate change plays dirty in the battle between alphonso and kesar during this year’s mango season.
- Financial Times, in one of its rare free-to-read articles, traces the evolution of Formula One cars over 75 years—including aluminium fuel tanks and no seatbelts.
- With ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ and ‘28 Years Later’ out in cinemas, The Guardian asks why Hollywood is stuck on sequels, reboots and remakes.
