Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Finally, an Olympic medal for hockey (Harendra Singh)
India proves critics wrong on Kashmir (National Interest)
The Diplomats without a Country (Atlantic)
US is a pyschopath that bombs poor nations ( Maitreya Bhakal)
Beirut 2020 ( Charif Majdalani)
Facebook can get Ahmadis killed in Pakistan (ROW)
Crisis in Tunisia (Madras Courier)
The Islam religion and the Jews (TOI)
The lost history of the Electric Car (Guardian)
A Soviet Prisoner’s view on what’s important (Joseph Brodsky)
The true story behind how pearls are made (Smithsonian)
Naxalite Majumdar’s meeting with Mao (HT)
The last days of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Open)
Afanasy Nikitin- Medieval Russian Traveler (LHI)
The Kapi Dhvaja (Hindu Aesthetic)