Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Blood and Soil in Modi’s India (New Yorker)
Stoking recession fears (Bibek Debroy)
The Pawar-Fadnavis Rivalry (India Today)
Whatever it takes, even war with India (Ashraf Jehangir Qazi)
Inside China’s surveillance state (Time)
Muslim sons of a Brahmin Peshwa (Manu Pillai)
The false promise of morning routines (Atlantic)
The intoxicating history of gins (New Yorker)
Profile: Hyderabad Top Cop V S Sajjanar (Swarajya)
Found: India’s Moon Lander Crash Site (Smithsonian)
Mt: Everest: Chaos at the Top of the World (GQ)
Michael Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle (Foreign Policy)
Everything Normal (J Mathrubootham)
The fish traders of Madras (Madras Courier)
Murshidabad: Death of a Capital (LHI)