Some off beat reads for the weekend:
All non-drone militaries are obsolete (Noah Opinion)
How US learned to love Pakistan (Drop Site)
Iran’s Iraqi Front (Arab News)
Kaliningrad & the Suwalki Gap (Crisis)
Why Pakistan deployed troops in Saudi Arabia (New Lines)
Foreign Policy Survey 2025 (ORF)
What globalizing the intifada looks like (Atlantic)
The only female Yakuza (Guardian)
The Paradox that is Punjab (Prateek Rajput)
Sita Ram Goel’s letter to Romila Thapar (DD)
The origins of Canara Bank (Parimal)
The Param-eaters of Bhodrolok (Great Bong)
Thread: Fact Check on Bhojashala (True Indology)
The evil Rammohun Roy (SM)
Thread: Dhaka muslin (Jamal Jafri)
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