Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The case of the top secret iPod (Tidbits)
Gandhis win, Congress loses (Harish Khare)
Fort Modi is impregnable (Shekhar Gupta)
This is how Biden loses (Atlantic)
China’s expansionism enters dangerous phase (The Hill)
The true story of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore (Palladium)
Parsis in Hong Kong (SCMP)
Dawood Ibrahim is Pakistan’s Schrodinger Cat (Naila Inayat)
Why do we equate genius with precocity? (Malcom Gladwell)
Mothere Teresa was no saint (Pandeyji)
Nimisha Priya, Yemeni jail inmate (News Minute)
In Ashgabat, Turkemenistan (LRB)
On Gita Press (True Indology)
On Sikh Coins (LHI)
Slavery & Vikings (Smithsonian)