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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 17 October, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Fearful silence amongst Indian-Americans (Scroll)

Indian politicians & revdi politics (Print)

RSS matters beyond India (WaPo)

Pakistan’s strike on Afghanistan (FP)

Pakistan’s Taliban project backfires (Cradle)

Pakistan between Gaza & the Great Game (MEM)

A US return to Bagram Air Base (NI)

United States Vs Venezuela (RT)

Gaza peace plan won’t last (TOI)

View from a Gazan (TOI)

Madagascar’s military coup (Al Majalla)

Drone warfare’s new old era (Engelsberg)

Shawarma in Berlin (Smithsonian)

Croatia’s Pomalo (BBC Travel)

Sari Exhibition in New York (NY Times)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 10 October, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Starmer’s desperate dash to India (FP)

India faces Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defence pact (FP)

Why America will lose to China (Japan Times)

Twitter & Saudi Arabia (Guardian)

Javier Milei has led Argentina to ruin (RT)

Thai students and their hair checks (NY Times)

Settlers bursting Tel Aviv’s bubble (New Lines)

Azerbaijan is new faultline in US-China confrontation (NI)

Pakistan’s Gaza assignment (Cradle)

Preparing for the death of Putin (RAND)

The roots of Kurdish discontent (Engelsberg)

How Mangalore has become the Silicon Beach of India (GC)

Chile’s Route 7 (BBC Travel)

Road Trip: Iceland (Team BHP)

Adi Shankaracharya: The man who hacked reality (AN)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 03 October, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

100 Years of RSS (Narendra Modi)

Ladakh on the boil (Goa Chronicle)

Social collapse looms in Pakistan (FP)

The Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Railway (Korybko)

The young UK generation are mollycoddled (Boris Johnson)

India has become Israel’s biggest cheer leader (ME Monitor)

How Canada squandered its Drone Lead (Walrus)

Japan between the Great Powers (Engelsberg)

The silence of the US Generals (Robert Hubbell)

Nightclubs of Lagos, Nigeria ( New Lines)

ChatGPT is blowing up marriages (Futurism)

Thread: True story about Shambuka Vadha & Eklavya (JD)

The curious story of Nawab of Arcot (Kaipullai)

An eyewitness account of the Goa Inquisition (Amit S)

Lee Kuan Yew’s eulogy for his wife (IM)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 26 September, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistan’s Mercenary Generals (Middle East Monitor)

Life is Poker, not Chess (Robin Guo)

High costs of India’s Health Care (Scroll)

The Sangh & the NorthEast (Open)

President Myung’s plan to reboot S Korea (Time)

The Gaza ‘Genocide’ (Spiked)

Russia’s Age of Contraction (Engelsberg)

Nepal picks up the pieces (Crisis)

India & the Caucasus (ORF)

A new Iron Curtain in Europe (Korybko)

Israel’s different approach to negotiations (Al Majalla)

Anti Americanism in Canada (New Lines)

The motivation behind 9/11 Terrorists (Rair Foundation)

The Tik Tok Template (Interconnected)

The world in which we live in (N Taleb)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 19 September, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Gaza is a manufactured Apocalypse (Al Majalla)

Israel’s Qatar strike shatters Gulf illusions (Cradle)

China exits Pakistan (FE)

The Saudi-Pakistan Defense Pact (Arab News)

Nepal’s Youth Uprising (New Lines)

The Jews’ coming Civil War (Spiked)

Israel is not Sparta (JPost)

Giorgia Meloni’s Balancing Act (Engelsberg)

Beijing’s Robot Army (NI)

Why AI Scientist Zhu returned to China (Guardian)

Andaman & Nicobar Islands Row (Organiser)

Hindustani Music’s decline in Pakistan (Scroll)

Rahul Gandhi: A non-serious politician (Print)

Thread: Catholic Church & Croatia Massacre (SU)

The Best Knives are from Sakai, Japan (Smithsonian)