Vande IndiaNov 12, 2019
JNU वाली लड़की 
On an completely unrelated note, what are the 5 essays/longreads/articles that you like reading again and again. Can be related to anything: personal experience, politics, culture, reading, writing, travel, profiles, interviews etc. Asking because it's impossible to follow book suggestions now, the list has become too long.
Nov 12, 2019 at 7:42amTusky
Show threadJNU वाली लड़की Nov 12, 2019
Some of the pieces that I revisit are:
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
http://www.molvray.com/ebooks/Quitting_the_Paint_Factory_Mark_Slouka.html
That Place Called Transit by Chinki Sinha
https://openthemagazine.com/features/living/that-place-called-transit-2/
Dear Sugar #48: WRITE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER by Cheryl Strayed
https://therumpus.net/2010/08/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-48-write-like-a-motherfucker/
That Film of Memory by Rahul Pandita
https://openthemagazine.com/features/india/that-film-of-memory/
A Toast to The Stray Dog by Shiv Visvanathan
https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/shiv-visvanathan/story/stray-dog-indian-cities-indian-city-life-matilda-214147-2013-10-13
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka

Show threadSridhar RamaswamyNov 12, 2019
@jnukiladki 1. The Obama Doctrine published in The Atlantic in 2016 a 20,000 word essay is one of the best I have read.
Show threadAshwin BaindurNov 12, 2019
@sridhar85 @jnukiladki essays by Eric Raymond on " The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ ), and "Why Python" (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882).
The Cathedral and the Bazaar

My third book

Show threadHitesh FulwaniNov 12, 2019
@jnukiladki Interesting, I don't have a tendency to go back to op-eds and haven't read as many academic articles to recommend 5, but one of the most insightful and lucidly written academic article which I do go back to is: Turning Modes of Production Inside Out: How Wage-labour is a Transformation of Slavery, by David Graeber
Show threadSudarshan PNov 12, 2019
@jnukiladki https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html Every time I feel cynical, I read this.
Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis

How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis.

The New York Times