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4 weeks ago | 
newsletter.thedriftmag.com | Krithika Varagur
Longtime readers of The Drift already know that we came into the world swinging. In our very first issue, quarantine diaries, interventionist foreign policy, and Tiger Kingall earned our wrath. But the first Drift takedown that reached escape velocity was “Doctor Do-Little,” Sam Adler-Bell’s incisive analysis of someone who was a sacred cow to about half of pandemic-era America: Anthony Fauci.
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May 22, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Krithika Varagur
Nicholas Kristof started his journalism career as a teen-age reporter for the News-Register, an Oregon county newspaper where he was paid twenty-five cents a column inch. He spent his pocket money on books about how to turn that gig into a career: a textbook on news editing, “The Best of Life,” accounts of White House reporters and foreign correspondents.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Krithika Varagur |Nneka Okoye
The prevalence of sickle cell disease is changing how Nigerians date, marry and plan their lives. And as genetic testing becomes more common, prospective parents across the world will face similar questions. By Krithika Varagur How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Moira Donegan |Krithika Varagur |Casey N. Cep
On and Off the MenuTo follow the scent of passion fruit around Los Angeles is to discover some of the city’s most inventive cooking.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Krithika Varagur
In 2002, three months after Milton Friedman turned ninety, a celebratory conference was convened at the school that had become synonymous with his ideas.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Krithika Varagur
Subomi Mabogunje fell for Nkechi Egonu within hours of meeting her in 2004. They were working at a state-run TV station in Ijebu Ode, a trading hub in south-west Nigeria. While Subomi was thin and bespectacled, Nkechi was petite and voluptuous, with her hair in a ballerina bun, and coldly immune to the stares that trailed her across the office. Her swaggering personality was also the opposite of his reserved one, and she was quickly promoted to programme presenter.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
greenlightbookstore.com | Vincent Bevins |Krithika Varagur
IN-STOREWednesday, October 4, 7:30 PMBook launch: Vincent Bevins presents If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing RevolutionIn conversation with Krithika VaragurWine reception to followFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
harpers.org | Krithika Varagur |Elena Saavedra Buckley |Christopher Beha
An estimated one out of every four Nigerians is a silent carrier of sickle cell disease, a hemoglobin disorder that can cause serious health problems and even death. With recent advancements in genetic testing, many Nigerians won’t take the risk of reproducing with other silent carriers or people with the disease. But, as Krithika Varagur reports, love doesn’t always accord with the Punnett square.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
theparisreview.org | Krithika Varagur
By Krithika Varagur July 13, 2023 Overheard Hangovers announced themselves on the wan faces on the District line to SW19 on the first Sunday of Wimbledon. Maybe I was projecting. It was a shame, people noted in low tones, that all the British players were now out. A pair of men splitting a salmon-colored broadsheet wondered which BBC presenter was at the center of a recent grooming scandal.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
harpers.org | Krithika Varagur
Subomi Mabogunje fell for Nkechi Egonu within hours of meeting her in 2004, in his hometown of Ijebu- Ode, a trading hub in southwest Nigeria. They worked at a state-run broadcast TV station, thrown together by the National Youth Service Corps. He was speechless on the day Nkechi first walked into work. While Subomi was thin and bespectacled, she was petite and zaftig, with her hair in a ballerina bun, and coldly immune to the stares that trailed her across the office.
