Some off beat reads for the weekend:
2020 is not 1962 (Maroof Raza)
China draws comparison to Imperial Japan ( Katsuji Nakazawa)
Justice Arun Mishra: An assessment (Bar & Bench)
The India XI who played the first Test (Sreshth Shah)
The End of Hope in the Middle East (Foreign Policy)
The man who refused to spy (New Yorker)
The inside story of how the Ricketts family owned the Chicago Cubs (Deadspin)
When YSL launched Opium perfume (SCMP)
Career Advice for smart people (Shreyas Doshi)
On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs (David Graeber)
How philantrophy benefits the super rich (Guardian)
Being rich is not hard work (Indi Samarajiva)
On Aurangzeb’s tyranny and bigotry (True Indology)
Nanda Devi’s nuclear secret (LHI)
India’s pride: Atal Tunnel (Team BHP)