Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Ilham Aliyev & the making of Azerbaijan (Palladium)
Exposing the fraud that is BBC (Anand Ranganathan)
Japan rearms for war (RT)
Finland & Estonia PMs- ‘ Girl Boss’ Militarism (American Conservative)
Thread: How NATO provoked Russia (Venkatesh Ragupathi)
Pakistan & Bollywood: A broken bond (Al Jazeera)
Pranksters harassing Indian Scam Call Centres (ROW)
The truth about China’s Cultural Revolution (Guardian)
How GDR fell in love with the West (Engelsberg)
Joshimath: Once upon a town (Open)
Thread: Nizamuddin Auliya (True Indology)
Unceasing struggle of the Adivasis of Palamau (Fifty Two)
The Hamilton Road in Kurdistan (BBC Travel)
Thread: The Thinker of Rodin (Cultural Tutor)
Obituary:Mukkaram Jah Bahadur, Nizam of Hyderabad (Dawn)