Some off beat reads for the weekend:
You can’t go wrong with IPL ( Boria Majumdar )
The drama of Sikkim’s merger with India (Fifty Two)
Russia moves in the Caucasus (Atlantic)
UK: Why elites are desperate to avoid discussing radical Islam (Spiked)
Pakistan: The hub of global terrorism (Madras Courier)
Killing civilians is fine if you are the US ( Tom Fowdy)
How the ANC destroyed South Africa (Unherd)
The Belt & Road strategy has back fired on Xi (Palladium)
The Barelvi Jinn is out of the bottle (Ayesha Siddiqa)
Remote workers face pay cuts at Google (Wired)
Indian tech cos are calling millions of workers back to office (ROW)
Travelogue: Maldives, post Covid (Team BHP)
Chennai: Chess Capital of India ( Sibi Arasu)
Arun Yogiraj: The Sculptor who created Adi Shankaracharya (Swarajya)
How Jack Ma flew too close to the sun (Reuters)