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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 22 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

On the Women’s Reservation Bill (Open)

Canada’s endorsement of terrorism (ORF)

Trudeau needs to provide proof (Toronto Sun)

Lavrov’s speech at UN Security Council (Chebureki Man)

Renewed hostilities between Armenia & Azerbaijan (Cradle)

How Pakistan’s drivers stay safe (ROW)

Thread: China Internet’s racist slurs against India (Wenhao)

The bizarre secret behind China’s spy balloon (Yahoo)

Afghanistan: Understanding the greater game (Tribune)

Palki Sharma is the face of rising, angry India (Print)

Meeting Mumbai again (AFar)

Yom Kippur, 1973 (TOI)

Norway’s apple cider (BBC Travel)

Thread: 12 best Korean movies (Peter Yang)

Obituary: Gita Mehta (Mint)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 15 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China’s itch to cut India down to size (Open)

India’s most wanted terrorists are turning up dead (Shiv Aroor)

Liberal Israel’s rude awakening (TOI)

The whole story of Libya’s floods (Declassified UK)

The Russian Far East rises (Cradle)

Britain’s monarchy is dying (Al Jazeera)

Leicester: a powder keg waiting to explode (Spiked)

Military takeover in Gabon (ORF)

Pakistan failing up to keep up with a changing world (The News)

The decompostion of Rotten Tomatoes (Vulture)

Inside a NYC sumo wrestling club (GQ)

Hotel Hauz Khas (The Dilli Mirror)

The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers (TAM)

Aikido: Japanese Martial Art (BBC Travel)

Trek : Kashmir Great Lakes (Team BHP)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 08 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Modi’s Moment at the G20 (Open)

On Saudi-India relations (Arab News)

Otto Von Bharat (American Conservative)

Taliban 2.0 (ORF)

Rising inflation hits Pakistan’s poor (Al Jazeera)

Assassinations in Gaza (Cradle)

Thread: Societies collapse without myths (Jash Dholani)

Google at 25 (Sundar Pichai)

Death on K2 (Insider)

Thread: The great Sam Manekshaw (Stavka)

Drive: Shimla & Chail (Team BHP)

Thread: On Asafoetida (Paperclip)

How bad is alcohol, really? (Walrus)

Trend: Shein plastic bags (ROW)

Thread: The best ‘Resist the Obvious’ story (Sahil Bloom)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 01 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Woes of Ashoka University (Open)

China’s farming push is about war (RT)

The world is going blind (Wired)

The Melilla massacre (Guardian)

Untangling Niger’s military coup (ORF)

Iran’s entry into BRICS (Cradle)

A Revival Doctrine for America (Vivek Ramaswamy)

Lock Imran Khan up (Baffler)

Anti-Christian attacks in Pakistan (Dawn)

Religious Jews own Ben Gurion a visit (TOI)

Forgetting the Ottoman Past (Al Jazeera)

On Cyrus the Great (Engelsberg)

How pornography forged the Trans movement (Spiked)

The Great Himalayan Ultra Race (Mint)

India’s beloved Mosur Dal (BBC Travel)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 18 August, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lukashenko on the future of Ukraine (RT)

A Wartime Dispatch from Poland (American Conservative)

India-China tensions on the global stage (ORF)

Pakistan Zindabad to Pakistan Se Zinda Bhag (Dawn)

Pakistan’s uneasiness with Afghanistan (Tribune)

Transnational Crime along the Mekong (Crisis)

The Eurocentric Fallacy (Guardian)

Israel’s land & rail proposal to the Persian Gulf (Cradle)

Biden’s bad Iran deal (TOI)

Muslim victimhood is an unassailable condition (First Post)

The Psychology of Meditation (Naval)

Manipur: The wages of Hate (Open)

Drive: Germany, Austria & Switzerland (Team BHP)

Germany’s Spaghetti Ice Cream (Smithsonian)

Thread: Different kinds of Lakshmi (Zionverse)