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Jun 15, 2025

Last week’s edition is here.

Reading - Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Last month, I visited a book sale with two friends, both literature graduates. They picked up a few classics for me upon realising I hadn’t read many.
The writing is unique, scarily interesting, and at times I felt like laughing. I am hoping a dramatic ending, let’s see.

Listening

The Revisit Project

A cool funk and jazz band from Delhi. They also have a song dedicated to Rahul Dravid. Quite fun and upbeat with a lot of variety. I especially liked the song Transition and their whole 2022 album: Capitalist Musician with a Left Leaning Avatar but especially Vibes from Tribes.

Djabe

A Hungarian jazz-rock band. I recommend listening each and every song by them. 11/10 vibes. You can start with Stone Age Tea. Surely, I will listen to their whole lineup once again.

Quiz Questions

You may comment with your answers on the Substack post or reply via email. Answers will be shared next week.

See last week’s answers here.

Which company, was once known as Lak Hui Chemical Co., began with products like a Korean makeup cream and a toothpaste?
It later merged with Korea’s first electronics company, laying the foundation for one of the country's most iconic conglomerates.
Just like India has the ₹ symbol, which currency uses the symbol “৳”?
Its ৳10 note features the Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque located in its capital city.
Which British author, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, was known for the works Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss?
What item, once exclusive and only possessed by royalty, inspired the central structure of Dunmore Park in Scotland?
The hothouse, located on the ground floor of the building, was used primarily to grow this item.
In 1995, the structure was ranked as “the most bizarre building in Scotland.”
A representation of the same item also appears on the South Tower of St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Which item, a part of Varanasi’s rich cultural and craft heritage, was awarded the GI tag in April this year?
The person most associated with it played it at the Red Fort on India’s first Independence Day.
Which famous photograph, taken on July 13, 2024, by the NYT photojournalist Doug Mills, won him the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography?
An extraordinary image that captured the precise moment of danger on perhaps the most dramatic day of an extraordinary political year.
Which 24-hour cycle gets its name from Latin words that mean “around or approximately” + “a day”?
What word comes from the Latin word meaning ‘little mouse’?
Probably because a flexed bicep, for example, was once thought to resemble a mouse—with a tendon for a tail—moving beneath the skin.
A 3-letter abbreviation, guess the name of this Lay’s flavour.
This quote is a dialogue between Henry Rearden and Francisco D' Anconia, and it likely explains the choice of title for which book?
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"