Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The humiliation of Manmohan Singh (Open)
Rahul Gandhi: Invisible prince of a vanishing kingdom (Outlook)
North East: The Alaska of India (IDR)
Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? (Atlantic)
Your personality could be making you fat (NYMag)
A history of Richard Branson’s hare brained hobbies (Vanity Fair)
Who choose your career path for you? (Forbes)
The trickiest part of a penis transplant:Finding a donor (Smithsonian)
Is prayer the answer? (Aeon)
Inside Baghdad’s brutal battle against ISIS (Rolling Stone)
Israel’s victory of fear (Project Syndicate)
Disney’s 1 Billion $ bet on a magical wristband (Wired)
Facebook Wall: Bangladesh loses to India (Unreal Times)
Auto Talk: German cars, ridiculous prices (Team BHP)
Gossip: Gautam Thapar’s wife deliberately scratches neighbor’s Bentley (FS)