Some offbeat reads for the weekend:
Did Aditya Birla group invest in PMS of Prime Securities? (Moneylife)
Was it possible to capture Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in 1947? (IDR)
How Ashish Chauhan is reviving BSE (Forbes)
India-Big Country,Big Problems (Barrons) Hat tip David
The unsinkable ship of Theseus (Newslaundry)
An explosive sorrow-A story about Patna (Caravan)
Anawratha’s battle axe (Outlook)
Modi epitomises what the other India would look like (Tehelka)
The IB test (Open)
Unlike Me (Slate)
The end of the world might just look like this (Smithsonian)
Competition amongst Islamists (Economist)
A new drone deal for Pakistan (ForeignAffairs)
10 Things beaches won’t tell you (MarketWatch)
How she lives on minimum wage-a McDonald’s worker explains (Forbes)
A Stay-At-Home mother’s most dreaded question (Atlantic)
12 dishes for the rainy season (MumbaiBoss)
Bubbles forever (Shiller)
Travelogue: Did the Diu in a Punto (TeamBHP)
Spoof:Congress to charge Rs.5 to attend Vipassana with Manmohan Singh (UnrealTimes)
The curious genius of Amar Bose (Popsci)