Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Salman Khan:The last Sultan (Open)
RSS exercises its power in the Cabinet reshuffle (Caravan)
Congress brings back soft Hindutva (OpIndia)
Mamata Banerjee and the Bongo in our heartbeats (NL)
The bait and switch Confusopoly Economy (Scott Adams)
The Uber-Didi deal is more about China (Haresh Chawla)
The ancient history of cheating in the Olympics (Smithsonian)
How Silicon Valley spreads the same aesthetic across the world (Verge)
How the ISIS trains its child soldiers (Spiegel)
Cooling down Kashmir (Pervez Hoodbhoy)
Chilla: A personal safety app (Rodinhoods)
Renuka Shahane’s rant on Salman Khan’s Blackbuck case (Facebook)
20 Fascinating Facts about Andaman & Nicobar (BI)
Travelogue: Skydiving in Dubai (TeamBHP)
How to be drunk in an airport (GQ)