Some off beat reads for the weekend:
What does Putin really want? (NY Times)
King of the Snitches (Bloomberg)
UK’s true role in the Yemen War (Guardian)
The Mystery of Lord Jagannath’s Temple Treasure (Outlook)
India’s first woman fire fighter (Better India)
Aliyah: Four years an Israeli (Times of Israel)
Technology: The next big battery breakthrough (Quartz)
On Retirement Blues (J Mathrubootham)
India’s greatest spy who wasn’t (Madras Courier)
Kapurthala’s Spanish Maharani (LHI)
The man behind Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s statue in Lahore (IE)
The Prince & the Golden Cow (Manu Pillai)
Travelogue: Tel Aviv (Nat Geo)
Reliving the Great Escape (Rishad Saam Mehta)
Kashmir: A final journey (Siddhartha Gigoo)