Some off beat reads for the weekend:
How Dynasties rule Bollywood (Kaveree Bamzai)
How Oxford Union created UK’s current political ruling class (Guardian)
Iran’s Supreme Leader in waiting (Arab News)
Inside Pakistan’s tech investment boom (ROW)
Sri Lanka & the IMF (Indi Samarajiva)
The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (TOI)
The Taliban were Afghanistan’s real modernizers (Palladium)
How the Ukraine war saved Orban (Unherd)
Islam & the making of the West (Spiked)
Thread: War in Taiwan (Tong Zhao)
The Peanut King (Guernica)
Big Tech has no power at all (Gray Mirror)
Thread: Combined Arms Warfare (Andrew Fox)
The return of Bali’s lost super food (BBC Travel)
Pravin Patel, Hydroponics pioneer (Better India)