On the Brunch radar

Brunch loves the excitement around Apple's product launch event and shoves the buzz around the royal pregnancy. A pop-culture round-up of the week, and things that happened. There are no grey areas here. We either love it or shove it.

LOVE IT

* Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of the Others shortlisted for the Booker. Beautiful book. You must read #BrunchBookChallenge
* Drinking customs around the world
* All the Apple excitement. It’s annoying, but kind of cute
* Owning a Kindle Paperwhite. Best buy ever
* Salad in a jar. Nomnom

SHOVE IT

* Barbie on Instagram
* All the product placements in Mary Kom. Iodex, seriously?
* Gushing over the royal pregnancy
* Every time someone calls winter ‘winters’ and summer ‘summers’. It makes our ‘hairs’ stand on end
* News reports sermonising Shweta Basu Prasad’s choice of profession

From HT Brunch, September 14
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