Weekend Reads The new variant of Covid-19 may not be more severe than before, but it is more transmissible. And that alone makes it treme...
Weekend Reads
- The new variant of Covid-19 may not be more severe than before, but it is more transmissible. And that alone makes it tremendously dangerous, writes Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic.
- Lawrence Wright takes the first stab at documenting the slow-motion train wreck of the United States’ Covid-19 response, in a piece in the New Yorker titled The Plague Year.
- “The pandemic will end not with a declaration, but with a long, protracted exhalation. Even if everything goes according to plan, which is a significant if, the horrors of 2020 will leave lasting legacies,” writes Ed Yong in The Atlantic.
- In the Indian Express, Ritika Chopra tracked “86 men and women who stood first in India, between 1996 and 2015, in their Class 10 and 12 exam” in an effort to understand how their aspirations played out and what that ought to teach us as the New Education Policy rolls out.
- “To fulfill its role as a security provider in the region, in a way that renders it attractive to countries worried about China’s rise, India needs a formidable navy to project power. But in a post-Ladakh scenario, with priority being accorded to the army’s more pressing demands, New Delhi’s naval ambitions will be checked,” writes Sushant Singh in Foreign Policy.
- In BuzzFeedNews, Alison Killing and Megha Rajagopalan use satellite photos to reveal how hundreds of detention...
