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In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition:The splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge.Li...
15/09/2025

In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

The splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge.

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In 1987, India came face to face with the ADL over a tennis match. Indian authorities had refused to grant visas to the ...
08/09/2025

In 1987, India came face to face with the ADL over a tennis match. Indian authorities had refused to grant visas to the Israeli tennis team ahead of a Davis Cup tie in New Delhi in July. Two months ahead of the tie, the ADL released a scathing report titled ‘India’s campaign against Israel’, accusing India of being among the ‘few countries outside the Arab world [to] have been so unrelentingly hostile to Israel’. It cited seventeen cases of India refusing visas to Israelis since 1980, condemned its vehemently public pro-Palestinian stance and recommended US sanctions. The contents of the report shocked Delhi. Already reeling from a reduction of aid from the US Congress, Rajiv Gandhi’s government responded by issuing visas.

The ADL report effectively changed Indian policy overnight.

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In the Art section of this weekend's Advisory edition: We take you through Art Night Thursday, and introduce you to seve...
07/09/2025

In the Art section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

We take you through Art Night Thursday, and introduce you to seven artists we think you should check out.

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In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition:The splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge.Li...
06/09/2025

In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

The splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge.

Link to the section in the comments below.

In the section of this week’s editionOur MUBI recommendations for AugustEditor’s note: We have started an exciting p...
02/09/2025

In the section of this week’s edition

Our MUBI recommendations for August

Editor’s note: We have started an exciting partnership with MUBI () where the splainer team will bring to you three movies streaming on the platform that are personally vetted once every month! We’re no film reviewers, but we will share our honest opinion. The good news for splainer subscribers: you get a one-month free trial for MUBI! Click on the link in bio to avail the free trial.

In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition: We recommend: The best new movies and TV seriesThe splainer tea...
30/08/2025

In the Watch section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

We recommend: The best new movies and TV series

The splainer team’s recommended list of new releases & MUBI titles to binge.

Link to the full edition in bio.

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In the Read section of this weekend's Advisory edition: Full throttle: A list of racing books Editor’s note: Formula On...
30/08/2025

In the Read section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

Full throttle: A list of racing books

Editor’s note: Formula One is absurd: hundreds of millions of dollars spent so that 20 people can drive around in circles really fast. And yet it produces stories steeped in depth and gravitas. The literature of racing captures what happens when human ambition meets mechanical limits, when the margin between life and death is measured in tire pressure and wing angles.

The books are of and from a world where milliseconds matter more than minutes, where winning demands a particular kind of madness. From novels that imagine the thrill and romance of speed to memoirs that reveal its cost, from technical deep-dives to corporate exposés, each offers a window into a universe that operates by its unique, relentless logic.

Written by Amritesh Mukherjee

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In the Travel section of this weekend's Advisory edition: The untourist’s guide to Europe: WarsawEditor’s note: Meenaks...
30/08/2025

In the Travel section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

The untourist’s guide to Europe: Warsaw

Editor’s note: Meenakshi has long been one of our favourite writers and people. She also has the greatest virtue of a traveler: a wide-ranging curiosity and interests. Meenakshi is most serendipitously living in Berlin—so we shanghaied her into writing a series of personal, unique, ‘un-tourist’ guides to cities in her backyard.

In this installment, she guides us through Warsaw, a city we’ve all been sleeping on. The Polish capital is the kind of effortless cool we aspire to be: charming, historical, unassuming, and full of vodka shots and vegan sushi (don’t knock it till you try it!).

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In the Culture section of this weekend's Advisory edition: Revisiting 'Rashomon' in the age of Trump and post-truth poli...
30/08/2025

In the Culture section of this weekend's Advisory edition:

Revisiting 'Rashomon' in the age of Trump and post-truth politics

Editor’s note: Japanese master Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon was released 75 years ago. The film has endured aesthetically, philosophically, and socially for its immaculate craftsmanship and haunting themes. Outside of cinephilia, it led to the popular phrase 'The Rashmon Effect', signifying truth is subjective, a belief that has had horrible effects on our polity over the last 30 years. Today, we look back on what makes Rashomon an enigmatic classic that inspires and warns in equal measure.

Written by Devarsi Ghosh

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This is the final hurrah for the splainer news edition. There are really no words to describe how it feels… but we have ...
29/08/2025

This is the final hurrah for the splainer news edition. There are really no words to describe how it feels… but we have lots more good news to share down in the headlines section.

This is the final hurrah for the splainer news edition. There are really no words to describe how it feels… but we have ...
29/08/2025

This is the final hurrah for the splainer news edition. There are really no words to describe how it feels… but we have lots more good news to share down in the headlines section.

The link to our last ever Headlines edition is in bio.

Check out more such as part of our new offering—a carefully curated roundup of headlines with our signature wit and hu...
28/08/2025

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