Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Seven Minutes that changed India (Open)
Modi Wave 2.0? (Minhaz Merchant)
How the Gupta Brothers hijacked South Africa (Vanity Fair)
A repulsively casual terrorist manifesto (Atlantic)
How I rediscovered my mother tongue (Guardian)
The last King of Xinjiang (SCMP)
How do we identify our enemy India? (Dawn)
The future Supreme Leader of Iran (ATimes)
Travelogue: Meghalaya (Team BHP)
Selfie with Sambhar (J Mathrubootham)
Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety (Brain Pickings)
Ahilyabai Holkar: A Queen like no other (LHI)
Much ado about a royal throne (Manu Pillai)
On the Surf Excel Ade (Nisha Susan)
“Hotel Mumbai” and the problem with terrorism movies (New Yorker)
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