Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The Lazarus heist (BBC)
Can we survive extreme heat? (Rolling Stone)
Xi’s message to the West (RT)
East Jerusalem is at a boiling point (TOI)
Kashmir: The road from Gupkar (Rahul Pandita)
Water revolution in Rudraprayag (BI)
Laurel & Hardy: Kings of Comedy (Madras Courier)
The long history of ‘Bombay Time’ (Atlas Obscura)
What British rule really did for India (Amartya Sen)
Operation Barbarossa ( Spiked)
Biju Patnaik: Lord of the Skies (LHI)
My grandfather, the Zionist (NY Mag)
Memories of a Honduran coup (Al Jazeera)
In a world without Sushi ( Juhea Kim)
In photos: Golden cape made from silk of a million spiders (Guardian)