Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Interview with Bashar Al-Assad (Izvestia)
An evening with an alleged mind reader (Open)
Asad,Akbar,Anarchy (Tehelka)
Engineering Terror (IDR)
The death of opinion mandi TV (Newslaundry)
Can anything put India’s defence middlemen out of business? (Caravan)
What urban planners can learn from a Hindu religious festival (Smithsonian)
The world’s biggest mutual fund takes a 41 Billion $ hit (Businessweek)
Amongst Syria’s Islamist fighters (NewYorker)
Going bankrupt at 25 changed Tommy Hilfiger’s life for the better (Forbes)
Why Interning at 60 is the new retirement plan (Atlantic)
How does McDonalds India operate? (Rodinhoods)
On the newshour tonite (GreatBong)
The Vulture’s Victory (ProjectSyndicate)
Travelogue:Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram (TeamBHP)
Spoof:Nawaz Sharif to campaign for JD (U) in Bihar (UnrealTimes)
The strange story of Skype (Arstechnica)
How Taliban attacked the largest US airbase in Afghanistan (GQ)
The Sholay opening scene visited (JaiArjun)