Some off beat reads for the weekend:
How Google is spying on us (Guardian)
Open Letter to Barkha Dutt (Abhijit Iyer-Mitra)
Rahul Gandhi, the Economic Saboteur (Jaggi)
Iraq’s post-ISIS campaign of revenge (New Yorker)
How UAE is profiting from the Yemen war (Guardian)
Assad wins in Syria (Time)
How CTrip is changing global tourism (SCMP)
Bureaucrats under scanner (Gossip Guru)
Mir Sultan Khan: The unsung chess genius (Madras Courier)
The best time to wake up (Daily O)
Tech is killing Street Food (Atlantic)
The untold story of Kashmiri Pheran (Outlook)
1919: A Portrait (Open)
Priya Varrier’s wink (Mint)
Obituary: Chennai’s Rs. 5 Doctor (BI)