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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Badals are taking Punjab for a ride (Wire)

Dhulagarh  and the media narrative (Great Bong)

The ground beneath India’s feet (Charles Assisi)

How the Berlin attack changed the country (Spiegel)

Is Emirates Airline running out of sky? (BusinessWeek)

History: Eichmann in Jerusalem (New Yorker)

The erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry (New Yorker)

How to identify assholes with this simple formula (Bullshit)

How ‘Friends’ triggered the downfall of Western Civilization (Medium)

How American journalists covered the rise of Hitler (BI)

Travelogue:Road Trip Bhutan (Team BHP)

What Varanasi taught me (Lucy Plummer)

How to reinvent yourself (James Altucher)

Secret of Lodha’s Diary (Gossip Guru)

Obituary:Om Puri  (Subhash Jha)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Rajat Sharma:India’s most powerful editor (Caravan)

Demonetization is ‘sickening’ and ‘immoral’ (Forbes)

Story of Sukh Sagar restaurants (YS)

Proptiger: No roar or bite (The Ken)

Why real estate in Kolkata is screwed up (Scroll)

Ramanujan and Magic Number 24 (Swarajya)

2 kind acts in 2016 (BI)

The Shia Militias of Iraq (Atlantic)

Otto Bell on Mongolia (Guardian)

Indus Treaty Interrupted (Dawn)

Sleepy Driving:Silent Killer on Indian Roads (Team BHP)

Spoof:Best Photojournalism of 2016 (Onion)

Why I quit my job and moved to Bangkok (NatGeo)

The last Marriage Broker (Open)

How would religions react if we made contact with aliens? (BBC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The real truth about Aleppo (Independent)

Silicon Valley:Valley of Dolts (Outline)

Rant:We are F**king done with these Billion $ cos (AppDupe)

Politics:Betting on Behenji (Open)

Germany’s Kebab Murders (Guardian)

The Godfather Wars (Vanity Fair)

My President was Black (Atlantic)

The Graffiti kids who sparked the Syrian War (Globe & Mail)

The greatest self-help scammer of all time (Paleo)

How India went from world’s education capital to depths of illiteracy (IndiaFacts)

Travelogue:New Zealand’s South Island (TeamBHP)

The secret to doing what you love (James Altucher)

An Indian in search of the perfect cup of tea (DailyO)

Gossip:BJP-NCP Kichdi cooking (Gossip Guru)

Your Grandma was right about idlis (Swarajya)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Demonetisation plan was cooked in Modi’s home (Reuters)

Abolish Income Tax as it is not part of our culture (Jaggi)

How Shashi Ruia of Essar helped me (Rodinhood)

An India survival guide for female travelers (BootsnAll)

Photos:Houses in 11 Megapolises (OldPicsArchive)

The Soccer Star Refugees of Eritrea (New Yorker)

How modern deep sea diving was invented (Unfathomable)

Coke Studio (1843)

Vijay Mallya’s Twitter Account hacked (Quint)

How Kerala is becoming a mini-Pakistan (Tufail Ahmad)

Why I cried for Jayalalithaa (NewsMinute)

Google never had to worry about money…until now (BusinessWeek)

Travelogue:Hyderabad to Sikkim in a Duster AWD (TeamBHP)

Not wanting kids is entirely normal (Atlantic)

God’s own dress code (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Nikki Haley’s Comet (Open)

India could be the first Cash Domino to fall (Forbes)

Haren Pandya’s murder (Saaf Baat)

An illustrated guide to Indian Food Tech (The Ken)

Inside Italy’s Ultras (Guardian)

Whats drinking in Bhutan like ? (NatGeo)

What they don’t tell you about Ayub Khan  (Dawn)

F*** Work (Aeon)

Travelogue: Hampi and Singadur (TeamBHP)

Auto Review: Tata Hexa (TeamBHP)

Spoof:The Vice Presidency of Joe Biden (The Onion)

Scindia’s political blunder (Gossip Guru)

Photos:World’s largest solar plant in India (Inverse)

FAQ’s on National Anthem in Cinemas (Aakar Patel)

Obituary:Fidel Castro,Complete Fraud (Daily Mail)