Some off beat reads for the long weekend:
The many beginnings of Diwali (Manu Pillai)
On the Maharashtra & Haryana elections (Outlook)
Asaduddin Owaisi’s dream is coming true (Print)
Amravati: Capital Chaos (India Today)
How liberalism failed in Eastern Europe (Guardian)
The untold story of the 2018 Olympics Cyber Attack (Wired)
On collecting sea shells (Hakai)
Sunroofs: Yay or Nay? (Team BHP)
On Spiritual Travel journeys (Reza Aslan)
Bound to Dharma (Bibek Debroy)
Why Indians in India don’t get Nobel Prize (J Mathrubootham)
The 400 year old memoirs of Sir Thomas Roe (Madras Courier)
Cornelia Sorabji’s fight (LHI)
The day Zubin Mehta gave Israel his heart (Noah Efron)
The complicated history of Flamenco in Spain (Smithsonian)