Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Kashmir: The end of victimhood politics (Ram Madhav)
The rotting away of democracy (Pankaj Mishra)
The rising tensions in the Middle East (New Yorker)
Inside the raid on N Korea’s Madrid Embassy (Guardian)
The loneliness of the Delivery Man (Mint)
The rise of the Zombie Mall (Smithsonian)
The Grandmaster Diet (ESPN)
Sambit Patra gets roasted (You Tube)
An aging marathoner tries to run fast after 40 (Wired)
Very bad NRI advice (J Mathrubootham)
Jadavpur University has fallen (Op India)
The many loves of the Mountbattens (Manu Pillai)
Goa’s Feni Story (LHI)
What do I call my boyfriend in Hindi? (Arre)
Why do some people love reading? (Atlantic)