Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Sarkari Musalman (Najmul Hoda)
The Enemy Within ( Minhaz Merchant)
New routes to making Covid-19 in the lab (Nicholas Wade)
How liberals made the British Empire (Unherd)
How Western media built up Ayatollah Khomeini (Ashkan Etemadi)
US’s secret dealings with revolutionary Iran (RT)
The rise & ruin of couchsurfing.com (Input Mag)
Food fraud & counterfeit cotton ( Samanth Subramanian)
Shehyrar Afridi in New York (Naila Inayat)
N Premawathi: Woman tuktuk driver in Sri Lanka (ROW)
20 Practical Career Lessons (Romeen Sheth)
24 things dying people wished they had done differently (Bryant S)
Kris Ashok & Indian cooking ( Shruti Rajagopalan)
How Visvesvaraya dammed the Cauvery (Fifty Two)
In search of Akba’s wise men (LHI)