Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The dangerous rise of Military AI (Guardian)
Bihar 2020 (Open)
The Panic Attack of the New York Power Brokers (Curbed)
On the Bhutto Dynasty (The Wire)
The rise & fall of Vanilla Ice (The Ringer)
An eviscerating email from a Founder to a Board Member (Ryan Caldbeck)
Tabassum Mansoor: The Negotiator who freed Indians in Libya (Hindu)
Gal Gadot as Cleopatra (TOI)
Why read? (Harold Bloom)
What’s the one thing that stayed with you from your first boss? (Ankur Warikoo)
How IAS Vikranth Raja restored 178 water bodies in 3 months (BI)
The origin of the phrase ‘Banana Republic’ (Siddharth Misra)
The Ambani Garage (Team BHP)
Remembering Jagjit Singh (Ajay Mankotia)
Photos Tribute: Bhanu Athaiya (Mint)