Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed: The Collaborator (Caravan)
India looks out (Arun Jaitley)
Bangalore’s Croremangala (Outlook)
The fight for Mosul (New Yorker)
The boy who scored a 1000 runs (Open)
In praise of idleness (Bertrand Russell)
Exploring the Australian Outback (Team BHP)
Why am I so sad about having a boy? (NYMag)
A Hindu soldier’s Aurangzeb (Wire)
The fault in our startups (Haresh Chawla)
How General Jacob got Pakistan to surrender (DailyO)
Mother Teresa as we didn’t know her (OpIndia)
Gossip: Amma is angry (Gossip Guru)
On tenacity in entrepreneurship (A VC)
2016 feels like its the Year of the Bear (Bloomberg)