Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The platinum touch of Nikhil Merchant (Wire)
Why Bollywood will never have its #MeToo moment (Arre)
Young India, Changing India : Ravi Viswanathan (Pari)
The lynching of Mashal Khan (Dawn)
Islamophobia in New Jersey (Guardian)
How New Zealand made Edmund Hillary (SBNation)
China’s latest move in Afghanistan (ATimes)
How Chinese students overseas are facing harsh life lessons (SCMP)
Tata Motors @ Auto Expo 2018 (Team BHP)
The growing legacy of Rahul Dravid (Scroll)
Modi’s unsoothing soothsayers (Gossip Guru)
Spoof: FBI warns of ‘American Dream’ scam (Onion)
How one note to Nehru changed the fate of J&K (BI)
The risk of lunar eclipse (J Mathrubootham)
Some advice I wish people had told me in my 20s (Thought Catalog)