Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Iran is right (Slate)
State Capture in South Africa (Guardian)
African Americans & the Moon Landing (Smithsonian)
The Texas Town that bet on Bitcoin and lost (Wired)
A Cultural Survey of the Economy (Bibek Debroy)
The rise of Aaditya Thackeray (DailyO)
Is Arif Mohammed Khan BJP’s next Presidential nominee ? (DailyO)
Goa, Goan , Gone (Swarajya)
What to do if bitten by a snake (Better India)
My favourite smell (J Mathrubootham)
Notes on a Suicide (Rana Dasgupta)
Indulekha: A pioneering Malayalam novel (LHI)
The thwarted promise of 1857 (Manu Pillai)
The Goan ‘Susegad’ (BBC Travel)
Moscow Diary (Outlook)