Long Read: Where the rivers meet

Sam Haselby | 20 minutes

Pilgrims have long sought in India’s holiest city an antidote to the modern West, but Varanasi is more dream than reality.

Snippets

Knives and spoons are ancient. But we’ve only been eating with forks for a few centuries.

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I have never once seen a startup lured down a blind alley by trying too hard to make their initial users happy.

- Paul Graham, Do Things That Don't Scale