Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more
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Here are the ten must-stories from around the world this Sunday:

1. In Scroll, Madhavan Narayanan explains why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web.

2. As dozens of journalists arrive in Hathras, the nondescript village in north India where a 19-year-old woman was gang-raped last month, VICE's Pallavi Pundir investigates the growing concern about the impact of media intrusion on the victim’s family.

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3. There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city than Wuhan. The New Yorker's Peter Hessler reports from COVID's Ground Zero.

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more
A woman wearing a mask walks past a quarantine notice about the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China at an arrival hall of Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, MJonday. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

4. The pandemic has fuelled a demand for tech-savvy teachers in India, writes Manavi Kapur for Quartz India.

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more

5. What's green, soggy and fights climate change? This NYT article has the answer.

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more
This should be a focus in post-pandemic recovery plans, said the report, which follows recent heatwaves in the United States and Siberia. Photo: Reuters

6. Has the pandemic changed parent's mind about phones, asks Meghan Leahy in The Washington Post.

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more
A passenger wearing a face mask following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak uses her phone on a subway train in Beijing, China September 29, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

7. Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbours didn't see anything. But her Fitbit did. Lauren Smiley's enthralling piece for the WIRED.

8. What is slow travel—and how can you be a part of the movement? Vogue's Megha Sharma has all the answers.

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more

9. 25 years of His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman on the journey of a lifetime in The Guardian

10. TIME's Abhishyant Kidangoor on how badminton star Manasi Joshi is fighting for disability rights in India

Weekend Reads: Why Arnab Goswami is a mythical anti-hero of the news web, and more

(WEEKEND READS Archive)

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