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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• How ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ Exposes the Politics of Appropriating the Cholas. The Tamil movie celebrates the richness of historical fiction in Indian literature while also raising thorny political questions
• Why have blue whales stopped singing? The mystery worrying scientists. The powerful sounds made by Blue Whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.
• Payment Processor Fun 2025. Making Your Own MSP
• After France Outlawed Brothels, Its Army Kept North African Women Selling Sex in Secret. At the end of World War II, hundreds were trafficked to shabby, illegal camps to service soldiers waiting to be demobilized
• Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River. Before government intervention, Native stewardship maintained salmon stocks since time immemorial.
• Confessions of a Syrian Barrel Bomber. A colonel in Bashar al-Assad’s air force recounts his role in the campaigns that devastated his country, and his escape after the regime’s fall
• Haile Selassie’s Band of Armenian Orphans. A bond forged through a common Orthodox faith left a lasting imprint on Ethiopia’s music
• Marx Goes To Texas. In October of 1845, having been silenced by government censors—and on the run from possible extradition—Karl Marx once thought about moving to Texas.
• The Myth of Forever Sleep. A new book examines why states continue to sell the American people on the utility of lethal injection—despite its well-documented, monstrous failings