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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Womb Whisperers (Mint)

Dry Days & Elections (Quartz)

Election Season in Bengal (M J Akbar)

How Thailand’s Rama X will be crowned (ATimes)

No US visas for Pakistan (Dawn)

This is what I have to say (True Indology)

Exploring Khasi Hills, Meghalaya (Team BHP)

The Battle of Winterfell (Wired)

Nugrybauti (Joel Mowdy)

The Legend of the Lungi (Karthik Venkatesh)

Best place in Chennai (J Mathrubootham)

The grocer who became a saint (Manu Pillai)

General Shahnawaz: Hero of the INA (LHI)

Why Travel Matters (Barack Obama)

Manna Dey Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend (for Mumbaikars) :

The sudden revival of Raj Thackeray (Mint)

The call for Mahinda Rajapaksa (LA Times)

SUCI : Lal Salaam (Open)

The Airbnb invasion of Barcelona (New Yorker)

How I fell in love with ancient Egypt (Guardian)

A War Lord rises in Libya (Atlantic)

Mahabaleshwar – More than strawberries (LHI)

Marriages not made in heaven (Manu Pillai)

The Jackfruit Revolution (BI)

If Suppandi were to be the PM of India (Madras Courier)

A Maratha Game of Thrones (Manu Pillai)

Karachi in Photos (QZ)

Spoof: Tesla self-driving car absconds with $ 702 Million (Onion)

Travelogue : Eastern Europe (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Avengers Endgame (Omaha World)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

How to turn $ 1,000 to $ 450 Million (Vulture)

The truth about Dentistry (Atlantic)

When everything falls away (Pico Iyer)

How Scotland erased Guyana from its past (Guardian)

Rwanda shows how hateful speech leads to violence (Atlantic)

Israeli farming technology in Kutch (BI)

15 Months of fresh hell inside Facebook (Wired)

Guantanamo’s Darkest Secret (New Yorker)

The sleeping giant of Tumkur (M J Akbar)

Election fever ( J Mathrubootham )

Poem: Permission to Loot (Madras Courier)

When Mughals fought the Mongols (LHI)

The dark history of Japan’s Rabbit Island (Smithsonian)

Bisrakh – Birthplace of Ravana (Daily O)

Seneca on how to manage your time (Brain Pickings)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Jallianwala Bagh: Lifting the veil (LHI)

Naxalbari turns saffron (Swarajya)

No full stops for Amit Shah (Open)

What College Admissions scandals reveal (Atlantic)

Insight: Automotive Logistics at a car factory (Team BHP)

Science: Human Brain Genes in Monkeys (Tech Review)

Why facts don’t change our minds (New Yorker)

The Islamization of Europe (Jihad Watch)

China’s hi-tech war on it’s Muslim minority (Guardian)

Witch Hunts in Papua New Guinea (SCMP)

The British journalist who defied the Raj (BI)

How Fiji changed travel (BBC Travel)

7 Parsi Men who cycled across the world a century ago (Scroll)

Why for India become Japan? (J Mathrubootham)

Bunny Chow, Indian dish in Durban (BI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Middle Class and proud of it (Monika Halan)

PM Modi’s first Lok Sabha 2019 Interview (Republic)

The politics of Raghuram Rajan (Swarajya)

The underground railroad of North Korea (GQ)

China’s bottomless thirst for milk (Guardian)

Baghdadi is still alive (ATimes)

How Trump beat Mueller (Time)

Travelogue: Dachau Concentration Camp (Team BHP)

The story of ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon’ (BI)

Certificate of Retirement (J Mathrubootham)

Lincoln on how to handle criticism (Brain Pickings)

The mystery of Unakoti (LHI)

Rajat Gupta: Grace & Disgrace (Open)

A Brahmin Woman of Scandal (Manu Pillai)

On Mongolian Cuisine (SCMP)