Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Mastery through deliberate practice), Technology (Why your bank's systems keep failing), Business (Secrets of successful listening), and Obituary (Katharine Whitehorn and Mahinder Watsa - Counsels of imperfection)
Katharine Whitehorn: ‘a star in a star-studded period’. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer
Katharine Whitehorn was a star in a star-studded period for the Observer. She was read not only by women but also by men for her sanity and wisdom. One sentence of hers has remained with me for more than 50 years: “Faith is life lived on the evidence of its highest moments.”
Richard Harries
In 1983, together with Barbara Hosking and me, following a trip to New York, Katharine Whitehorn co-founded the Links Group for Senior Women, which morphed into the UK International Women’s Forum, a hugely useful and stimulating organisation.
Counsels of imperfection - Katharine Whitehorn and Mahinder Watsa died on January 8th and December 28th | Obituary economist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from economist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Preparing a meal for one: The pandemic has given fresh purpose to solitary cooking
It is a good time to be remind oneself of the lessons to be learned from solitary, yet satisfying cooking.
Synopsis
Making food alone in barsatis & bedsits has often accompanied the first whiff of freedom.
In the 2019 indie film Axone about young Northeasterners in Delhi trying to cook a dish that many people in the city find offensively smelly, they finally find refuge on a terrace after being denied access to most kitchen spaces. As they cook the makeshift way, as many tenants of Delhi’s barsatis have done, the smells dissipate in the open air, allowing them to finish making the dish.
My memories of Sir David Barclay | The Spectator spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.