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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Scindia Revolt (Amita Shah )

Nothing will be left of Congress ( P D Barman)

Why Hindus are not able to tell their side of the story (Manu Joseph)

Italy: Who gets a hospital bed? (Atlantic)

Putin positions to be Russia’s eternal leader (New Yorker)

China’s Kaifeng Jews (SCMP)

Hezbollah: The curse of Lebanon (Hussain Abdul Hussain)

The Princess who got away (Rafia Zakaria)

Donald Trump is the greatest hoax on America (Preet Bharara)

Will Tokyo 2020 Olympics happen? (Time)

How to make hand sanitizer at home (Wired)

What future is there for planet? (J Mathrubootham)

Missing: The roar of the crowd (Esquire)

Profile : Begum Hazrat Mahal (LHI)

The myth of ‘Bloody Mary’ (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

You’re likely to get the Coronavirus (Atlantic)

CAA is necessary (Harish Salve)

Naveen Patnaik’s unbeaten run (Outlook)

What Rashmi Thackeray means for Shiv Sena (DailyO)

WeWork: Eat, Pray, Spend (Bustle)

Putin saves Erdogan from himself (ATimes)

The People of Las Vegas (Believe)

The rise & fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis (Guardian)

The end of Egyptian Cotton (New Yorker)

How 4 Christian votes made Pakistan possible (Friday Times)

40+, Single & Loving it (Mint)

Married life means what? (J Mathrubootham)

Dorabji Tata: Going for Olympic Gold (LHI)

Travelogue: Bhutan (Team BHP)

Cairo Diary (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Hate Wave in Delhi ( Rahul Pandita )

Delhi Police has only itself to blame ( Neeraj Kumar )

Lawless Anti Nationals ( Media Crooks )

Coming up Trumps ( Aroon Purie)

From America with Love ( Brahma Chellaney)

Under lockdown in Italy ( New Yorker )

Coronavirus could break Iran ( Atlantic )

Russia and Turkey drift towards War ( Jamestown )

The great Buenos Aires bank heist ( GQ )

How Bahawalpur helped a broke Pakistan ( Print)

The Bernie Sanders Litmus Test ( TOI )

Bhagat Singh’s greatest ‘fear’ ( LHI )

Travelogue : 20 days holiday in Japan ( Team BHP )

The Heera Mandi of Lahore ( Dawn )

Mathrubootham goes for a massage ( J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart (Samanth Subramanian)

How Pulwama changed India ( Sushant Sareen)

How the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is taking shape (Swarajya)

The Airbnb scam in London (Wired)

Going to Tijuana for surgery (Medium)

Why Mahathir may not step aside for Anwar (ATimes)

Pakistani Hindus lose daughters to forced Muslim marriages (USA Today)

In Britain, even jails have a class system (Atlantic)

How the Jubilee Diamond saved the Tatas (LHI)

For centuries, war & opium have been entwined in Asia (SCMP)

Strom-R3: A startup electric car (BI)

Mathrubootham Vs Whatsapp history lessons (J Mathrubootham)

9 rare natural phenomena worth traveling for (Smithsonian)

Drink Kahwa like a Kashmiri (Mint)

Obituary: Larry Tesler, the inventor of Cut-Copy-Paste (BBC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Intelligence Coup of the Century (Washington Post)

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime (Huff Post)

Who is Rishi Sunak? (FT)

Did Japan offer $ 100 Million to Portugal for Macau? (SCMP)

From Egypt to Exodus (Yoni Leviatan)

AAP’s return (Swapan Dasgupta)

Why RSS is smiling at Kejriwal’s win (India Today)

Did Nehru not want Patel in the Cabinet? (Swarajya)

Inside an Indian internment camp (Mint)

The plight of the Tibetans (DailyO)

Mumbai’s Esplanade Mansion (Nat Geo)

Who likes Spartacus? (J Mathrubootham)

A house for Mr. Azad (Abdul Kalam Azad)

A peek into the Peshwa Court (LHI)

Does happiness in your 50s signal the end of ambition? (WaPo)