Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The biggest untold story about the Olympics (Gaurav Sabnis)
Why Angela Merkel has lasted so long (Spiked)
Violence may return to N Ireland (RT)
The Hundred Years War of Arab propaganda (TOI)
The Gaza ceasefire is shaky (Al Jazeera)
Mandela’s dream for South Africa in ruins (New Yorker)
The return of South Africa’s militias (Unherd)
When Denmark criminalised kindness (Granta)
The redundancy of Farmer’s agitation (Open)
Chasing Off-Kilter Friendships in Tokyo (Nat Geo)
The British shipwreck that changed the world (BBC)
Lankeshwari: The Odia Goddess from Lanka (LHI)
Sivapada in Cambodia (Hindu Aesthetic)
Murder in Whip City (Truly Adventurous)
Remembering Jagdish Raaj (Ajay Mankotia)