Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The Shoes Post (Beatzo)
Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story (Open)
The case for peace with Iran (Jeffrey Sachs)
How Steven Seagal became Kremlin’s envoy (Buzzfeed)
Gossip: Advani to be NDA’s Presidential candidate in 2017 (GossipGuru)
Ratan Tata is now an angel investor (Outlook)
What the trial of Manmohan Singh must address (Caravan)
800 Conversions that never happened (News Laundry)
Kidnapped at the border (New Yorker)
Facebook Wall:CSK valued at 5L (Unreal Times)
Travelogue:Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (TeamBHP)
Deepinder Goyal: Zomato founder (Forbes India)
Taking stock of 75 years of McDonalds (Smithsonian)
100 years after the Armenian genocide (Atlantic)
How the most daring plan of WWI turned into a military disaster (I09)