Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The rot in JNU (Makarand Paranjpe)
On the Ayodhya case (Seshadri Chari)
The power of unconditional hospitality (Priya Basil)
What Riyaaz Amlani wants you to know about whisky (Mint)
Lebanon doesn’t need heros (Fadlo Khuri)
Impeachment comes for Trump (New Yorker)
Bullet-Proof Cars: All you need to know (Team BHP)
All roads lead to Rishikesh (Nat Geo)
On new Technologies (J Mathrubootham)
Fiction: To the Dogs (Jianan Qian)
On Rajatarangini (Madras Courier)
The Zoji La battle of 1948 (Print)
Travelogue: South India Bike Odyssey (Dr Vijay Malik)
Madame Tussaud’s early Indian connection (LHI)
The word that encapsulates Frenchness (BBC Travel)