Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The lies and politics behind GST (Op India)
What Gandhis don’t want you to know about Adil Shahryar (DailyO)
When I was a Prisoner of War in Pakistan (Outlook)
Can India’s Parsis survive their own success? (Harpers)
ISIS enshrines a theology of rape (NYTimes)
The unretiring Serena Williams (NYMag)
How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels (New Yorker)
Finland-The country most afraid of Russia (Harpers)
Spoof:Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha (Unreal Times)
Auto Ownership Review:Mercedes CLA45 (Team BHP)
A hanging in India (Shashi Tharoor)
Jinnah’s role in India’s first talkie Alam Ara (Scroll)
Mutual Fund Startup Scripbox gets funding of 16 Crores (YS)
Arnab’s hoax (Media Crooks)
Ashish Khetan:I leaked the Radia tapes (Newslaundry)