A list of good reads
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) lifts the lid of a $15 billion mystery behind the apparent suicide of the financial advisor to an Hermès heir.
- Sandeep Dwivedi of Indian Express explains why Indian cricket doesn’t deserve its greatest fast bowler, Jasprit Bumrah.
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) takes a trip to Tierra del Fuego, the wild archipelago at the end of the Earth.
- CNN asks why Japan—once a tech giant—is still stuck with fax machines and ink stamps.
- NewsLaundry decries that the newly uploaded ‘official version’ of the 1986 cult classic ‘New Delhi Times’ has been ruined by self-censorship.
- In an official statement, Medicins Sans Frontieres draws on data to report that the current aid distribution system in Gaza is a form of orchestrated killing.
- Good Food Movement makes the case for chicken manure—smelly, potent, packed with nutrients and fueling farms around India.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) warns that you are contaminated by the exposome—the sum of external exposures encountered over a lifetime, from microplastics to pollution particles.
- BBC News identifies the mysterious ‘dark comets’ prowling our Solar System—which could also explain how water arrived on Earth.
- Scroll has a history lesson on Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi—the Raja of Aundh who gave away his powers to the praja.
