Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Shah Bano 2.0 (Open)
Winning elections bigger than dynasties (Vir Sanghvi)
US Army is not ready for a war with Russian Army (SWJ)
Inside the Taliban’s return to power (Guardian)
Justin Trudeau’s phony dictatorship (Unherd)
The rise of antisemitism in Europe (TOI)
Demolitions in Nairobi (Jacobin)
Spotify in Pakistan (RoW)
France is living in Zemmour’s world (Palladium)
Thread: Why Stalin purged the Old Bolsheviks (Kamil Galeev)
Dr. Subramanian & Ludhiana Basketball Academy (Fifty Two)
Thread: Vasudev Balwant Phadke (Sadaa Shree)
Pune Engineers helps 26 Villages become drought free (BI)
Thread: My wife’s transformation (KA)
The story of how I met my education (Nisha Susan)