Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Thread: South Africa has collapsed (Zombie Land)
Russia’s Lavrov gets cheers & jeers in India (WaPo)
The new Warsaw Pact (Engelsberg)
The West lives on in Afghanistan (Palladium)
New York Times has a Jesus problem (TOI)
Russophobia in America (RT)
India’s connectivity projects with Myanmar (ORF)
North East a success story (Shekhar Gupta)
Thread: Lies of Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge (Himanta Biswa Sarma)
Uddhav Thackeray’s hard fall (Open)
The trials of an Indian witness Nisar Ahmed (Guardian)
How Pakistan would view Abul Kalam Azad (DailyO)
The story of the Amur falcon (Mint)
Drive: Rann of Kutch (Team BHP)
The little known history of Champagne (BBC Travel)