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Weekend Mega Linkfest: October 28,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The story of Tata Sons (Jehangir Pocha)

Mr.Marwari-Have you met Mr.Tata ? (Rodinhood)

The Coming Caste Wars (Outlook)

Electing Trump will be the biggest F*** You in history (Michael Moore)

The Spy who couldn’t spell (Guardian)

Inside the paranoid world of Julian Assange (BuzzFeed)

How I lost the race for UN Secretary General’s job (Shashi Tharoor)

Restorers lift the lid on Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem (Guardian)

Earth has lost more than half its animals since 1970 (Slate)

Travelogue:Iceland Road Trip (Team BHP)

Hrithik Roshan’s Watch Collection (GQ)

Is travel a good way to test a relationship? (NatGeo)

A language to unite mankind (New Yorker)

3 Ways to mess up your kids with money (Forbes)

Why I wake up at 4:22 am (LinkedIn)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: Oct 21, 2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Awesome Video of the Future: The Self-Driving Car (Tesla)

Freddie Mercury-The rockstar from Panchgani (Scroll)

Ramanujan:Encounter with the Infinite (Believer)

A Karnataka Billionaire’s wedding invite (NewsMinute)

A theory of Polytheism (IndiaFacts)

A Tattoo for the King (Atlantic)

What happened on Eastern Airlines Flight 980 (OutsideOnline)

Surviving the fall of Mosul (National Geographic)

Greenland is Melting (New Yorker)

Road Tripping through the African Savannah (TeamBHP)

A startup for Indian dentists (YS)

Has Samsung been fired? (Charles)

Nation is with Arnab Goswami (Anupam Kher)

How Kejriwal is wooing journalists (Gossip Guru)

The Delhi lawyer who filed a 125 Cr IT return (Quint)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest : October 14,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Software dies at 17 (Andy)

Death of a King (Al Jazeera)

Punjab,not UP, will decide course of national politics (HP)

RSS: The Family Makeover (Open)

AAP: A One Man Show (Caravan)

Shimon Peres had a solution to the Kashmir problem (IH)

India has become like Pakistan (Harish Khare)

Sharif Brothers Vs Pak Army (Quint)

What to do in 36 Hours in Mumbai (NYTimes)

A Durga Pujo Short Story (Great Bong)

Prithvi Narayan Shah:Great Gorkha Emperor (IF)

Startup : JogoApp (YS)

A Whiskey for People who prefer Vodka (Bloomberg)

Gossip: Vikram Chatwal has lost it (FS)

Media Bullies (Media Crooks)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest : October 07,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What happened in Kashmir? (Atlantic)

The desperation of Indian housewives in the US (Quartz)

Army Vs Anti Nationals (Media Crooks)

Pakistan will win any war against India (Pakistan Tribune)

How a peanut seller became Asia’s biggest billionaire (Time)

The mind bending Benedict Cumberbatch (VanityFair)

Sweden: A cashless world (New Yorker)

The Cobalt pipeline (Washington Post)

Profile of the richest man ever- John D Rockefeller (Part I & II)

Valentine Strasser: Once the world’s youngest dictator (BuzzFeed)

Auto Talk: Small and useful car accessories (TeamBHP)

This is what I do in a negotiation (James Altucher)

James Bond is selling paan masala on Twitter (DailyO)

Sunil Mittal gets a reality check (Gossip Guru)

3 Entrepreneurial lessons from Arnold Palmer (Forbes)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest : September 30,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

5 Stages of grief for Indian “liberals” (Great Bong)

The untold story of Dhoni’s business ventures (YS)

The Bangladeshi traffic jam that never ends (NYTimes)

Pakistan’s national baseball team arrives in Brooklyn (New Yorker)

Why decrease in crime statistics is bad news (Wire)

Mahatma Gandhi’s war on Indian Revolutionaries (DailyO)

The untold stories about Japanese war brides (WP)

Where Germans make peace with their dead (New Yorker)

The unbearable smallness of Benjamin Netanyahu (Atlantic)

Travelogue: Canyons and Deserts of USA (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Siddhu wants to go back to BJP (Gossip Guru)

Paki Comedian on why India-Pak should not go to war (BI)

Photos: Hrithik Roshan’s car collection (GQ)

Maharaja Ranjit Singh gets honored in French town (Outlook)

Why anything worth doing takes years (Jon)