Some off beat reads for the long weekend:
The brutal history of Kalapani (Guardian)
How Savarkar and RSS won (HT)
On Abhijit Banerjee (Bibek Debroy)
Ayodhya Advocate: K Parasaran (Swarajya)
How the Communists killed industry in West Bengal (Rediff)
Updates from Kashmir (Abhijit Iyer Mitra)
Walkover for Devendra Fadnavis (Hemant Desai)
When GoFundMe gets ugly (Atlantic)
On Yasukuni (Al Jazeera)
Bike Ride: Coastal Gujarat (Dr. Vijay Malik)
Travelogue: Iceland (Team BHP)
Gold cannons & a poison plot (Mint)
Video: Pune & the Maratha Empire (Uday Kulkarni)
Enjoy within limits (J Mathrubootham)
Why you don’t see your friends anymore (Atlantic)
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