Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The Uyghur Chronicles (Atlantic)
Cuba: The invisible boot (Antonio Garcia Martinez)
I wish I didn’t live in Durban (Paddy Harper)
Erik Prince’s $ 10 Billion private army in Ukraine ( Time)
How China censors video games (Guardian)
President Kamala would destroy America (Unherd)
Bollywood: Sunset on Khan Market ( Kaveree Bamzai )
Sonu Sood: Hero or Villain? (Hawk Eye)
The last King of Burma (Ahana Bag)
The epic battle of Pavan Khind (Historify Today)
A peek into Panaji’s history (Mint)
The horrific history of the English word ‘juggernaut’ (Savitri Mumukshu)
The Clairvoyant (Truly Adventurous)
Vaishali Shadangule: First Indian woman at Paris Couture Week (BI)
Which oils are used for frying Indian Namkeens? (Swetha Sivakumar)