Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The Sikhs who saved Parmesan (BBC)
Was studying in IIT worth it? (Scroll)
MAM Ramaswamy:The last King of Chettinad (Open)
The lesser known Wipro sibling (Forbes)
Will the Sun set on Maran’s empire ? (Newslaundry)
This is how Uber takes over a city (BusinessWeek)
The man who sleeps in Hitler’s bed (Guardian)
Zane’s secret (Washingtonian)
Is financial repression here to stay? (Project Syndicate)
Travelogue:Lakshadweep (Team BHP)
The Ladhak Taxi Mafia (Team BHP)
The Hrishikesh Mukerjee Book (JaiArjun)
The violent legacy of India’s partition (New Yorker)
Gossip:Why Lalit Modi back stabbed Vasundhara Raje (Gossip Guru)
How Indians responded on Twitter to Bobby Jindal’s nomination (BuzzFeed)
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