Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The fall of the brothers Rajapaksa (Open)
Imran Khan’s U-Turn on India (Naila Inayat)
Congress has to split to revive (Seshadri Chari)
Finland moves to join NATO (US News)
Russia’s ‘gas weapon’ is a myth (Al Jazeera)
The US-China trade war is about to hit the Middle East (Jacobin)
Bollywood can cement ties between India & Saudia Arabia (Arab News)
Why Catalonia failed (Palladium)
Jubao in China (New Yorker)
The invincible business of Counterfeit goods (Guardian)
The nuclear family has failed (Unherd)
In the Court of the Liver King (GQ)
Thread: The storytelling framework that Steve Jobs uses (Nathan Baugh)
What makes a fart a fart? (Slate)
Obituary: Shiv Kumar Sharma (Open)