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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 05 October, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How China hacked into US companies (Bloomberg)

Donald Trump’s suspect tax schemes (NYTimes)

US-China heading towards a new Cold War (ATimes)

The truth about Rafale (Open)

Death in the evening (Rahul Pandita)

What an audacious hoax reveals about Academia (Atlantic)

An ill wind (Dawn)

The ordinary people of the Raj (Manu Pillai)

Lessons from the last Swiss Finishing School (New Yorker)

Biggest Blunders in the Indian Automotive Scene (Team BHP)

The Barber from Ooty (Better India)

Ananga Ranga: The Hindu art of love (Madras Courier)

A taste of Tbilisi (DailyO)

Travelogue: Mongolia (SCMP)

A Quest for tigers in India (The Ringer)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 28 September, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The London Banker who broke the world (Guardian)

On the Aadhar verdict (Jaggi)

Sexual assault by Nana Patekar (Tanushree Dutta)

How Russia swinged the election for Trump (New Yorker)

How Aung San Suu Kyi lost her way (Atlantic)

Ukraine: Peace via assassinations (ATimes)

Dying alone in Japan (SCMP)

The Cartel next door (Texas Monthly)

Travelogue: Quebec (Team BHP)

The mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri (Anuj Dhar)

Why is Mr. Mathrubootham hungry? (J Mathrubootham)

How Pachisi became Ludo (Madras Courier)

3 Pakistani Startups (Dawn)

Mumbai Notebook (Anil Dharker)

East India Company: Founders of Bombay (Mint)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 21 September, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Take Me Back to India (Guardian)

Sign of Difficult Times to come (Markandey Katju)

Mohan Bhagwat’s idea of India (Daily O)

Everything you know about obesity is wrong (HP)

Polarization in Poland (Atlantic)

Germany’s Summer of Identity Crisis (Atlantic)

Chinese on trains (SCMP)

The 57 Foot Bahubali statue (Team BHP)

Profile: Makhan Singh, Kenya’s Revolutionary (Madras Courier)

Amit Samarth: Cycle rider across Siberia (Hindu)

Muharram in the 19th Century (Dawn)

The Colonial Clubs of India (Open)

Local Indian Liquors (Outlook)

New Rahulism (Gossip Guru)

Non-stop comedy in my house (J Mathrubootham)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 07 September, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Becoming an Ironman (Mint)

How an ‘Intolerant India’ emancipated the tolerant (Op India)

Why were Kerala floods so deadly? (Time)

The legacy war at Teen Murti (Open)

The Op-Ed that caused a political earthquake in America (NYTimes)

China’s shocking pace of change (Guardian)

When China calls, all Africa answers (ATimes)

The worst is yet to come in Syria (Atlantic)

The Imam’s Widow (Pro Publica)

Are Chinese tourists messing up Bali ? (SCMP)

Profile: S Radhakrishnan (Swarajya)

The eternal Malgudi Days (Madras Courier)

Chennai-The chess capital of India (Outlook)

Wedding shopping adventures in India (Mint)

Carnatic Music’s recent discordant note (Anand Kumar)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 31 August, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

The RSS (Outlook)

How Sugar influences Indian politics (Fortune)

How America’s most reckless Billionaire created the fracking boom (Guardian)

Uncomfortably numb in Punjab (Open)

A 1980s Wall Street insider trading case (SCMP)

The nastiest feud in Science (Atlantic)

Inside the fabulous world of Cruise perfomers (Esquire)

American Pie (Eater)

Jordan’s existential crisis (ATimes)

Myanmar’s Kachin minority (Time)

Mayawati estranged (Gossip Guru)

The inspiring story of Ngangom Dinko Singh (BI)

India’s obsession with fair skin (Madras Courier)

Auto Review: Jaguar I-Pace Electric SUV (Wired)

Slum Wolf (Granta)