A list of good reads
- Malini Nair in Scroll writes on the unique music genre nurtured by Mysore maharajas—a blend of Carnatic and Hindustani traditions.
- The Conversation has an eye-opening piece on how your eating habits could alter the genes of your unborn children and grandchildren.
- Ashoka Mody in The Atlantic offers a corrective to the liberal obsession with Modi—arguing that the erosion of Indian democracy began long before he came along.
- New Yorker has an excellent profile of Padma Lakshmi and her new passion for standup comedy. Yup, you read that right.
- BBC Science Focus reports on a fascinating medical technique that allows scientists to grow mini organs in unborn babies—to save them.
- Also in BBC News: Soutik Biswas explores the reason behind the sharp decline of the ‘family savings’ in India.
- Two good reads from Wall Street Journal: One: (splainer gift link) An entertaining read on why ‘hey’ is the most dreaded word at work. Two: (splainer gift link) Katie Deighton reports why captchas on the internet are getting ridiculously hard.
- Inside Hook has a feature on the strange, distinctly male habit of “side-by-side interaction.”
- Elle Griffin in The Elysian looks at why the book publishing industry is broken.
