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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Safeguarding India’s strategic autonomy (Niti Shastra)

Why Kerala chose V D Satheesan (IE)

Odds stacked against Joseph Vijay (Print)

Despondency of Non-Resident Bengalis (India Today)

Bengal’s Culture of Humiliation (Great Bong)

Thread: Conspiracy against Great Nicobar project (Vijay Patel)

Is Elon Musk already a Trillionaire? (Puck)

Iran’s Bluff (TOI)

Angry young British women (Spiked)

Belgium sends soldiers to its streets (Spectator)

Why young Indians join the Civil Services (KBS Sidhu)

The quiet grief of adult friendship (TOI)

AP x Swatch Royal Pops (GQ)

How 3 Indian PoWs escaped from Singapore in WW 2 (Scroll)

China’s most famous green tea (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Deconstructing Bengal Elections-Part 1 (Great Bong)

Deconstructing Bengal Elections-Part 2 (Great Bong)

The end of Mamata’s evil empire (First Post)

What liberals need to understand about Bengal’s voters (NDTV)

The Trinamool-Jamaat nexus (Daily Star)

The man who gave Modi Bengal (NS)

The real message from Tamil Nadu election results (Swarajya)

What lies ahead for Assam (Print)

The Return of the Sacred (Vasudha)

Mixed messages on US-Iran deal (Time)

Germany’s new militarization (RT)

Thread: The Hedonic Treadmill (Sandeep Kulkarni)

The story of HMT Rice (Parimal)

Mirza Ghalib on Benaras (Raza Rumi)

A museum visit with VS Naipaul (Aatish Taseer)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

5 Factors in West Bengal Election (Print)

Demographic change in West Bengal (Dossier)

India is becoming a new global power (TOI)

Pakistanis deported from UAE (New Lines)

How Iran’s regime stays in control (NI)

Russia mulls Mali strategy (Al Majalla)

Asian mothers, bad feelings (Guardian)

Settler pogroms in Palestine (RT)

Europe is no longer pro Israel (MEM)

Israel’s strategic failure in Iran (Niti Shastra)

Eurasian back-door War Economy (R&R)

Horological Hiccups (GWC)

Aurangzeb & Jagannath Temple (Sanatan)

27-year-old revenge killing in Mumbai underworld (IE)

The insipid vegetarian breakfast of luxury hotels (MC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lawrence Bishnoi is Karma (Guardian)

India-Russia Pact (RT)

China & Pakistan’s Iron Friendship (ORF)

Not Arabs.Not Indians.Just Pakistanis (Dan Qayyum)

Ukrainian Robots captured a Russian position (RAND)

Harsh measures in Egypt (MEM)

Israel’s Unit 8200 (Niti Shastra)

Iraq in the Vise (Crisis)

No mobile phones on Tiger Safaris (BBC Travel)

Thread: Schwa Deletion in Linguistics (Sam Mathad)

The Art of the Tip (R Balu)

3 Ladies who shaped the narrative of smallpox (Scroll)

The White Gopuram of Srirangam (RSC)

Babus & their Pens (Gurdeep Singh Sappal)

Drive: Bhutan (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Psycho Politics of Dhurandhar (For Pol)

The night of Red Terror is over (RT)

The Women’s Reservation Trojan Horse (KBS Sidhu)

America’s double standards on Nuclear Islamism (The Hill)

Pakistan, the untrustworthy broker (TOI)

The unmaking of Kuwaitis (New Lines)

Sayyid Qutb: Godfather of Islamism (Spiked)

Osho debunks nonviolence (Rakesh Simha)

The funniest first date (EZ Rider)

Life of a Japanese Salaryman (Nyan Chuu)

I was ordained a Jenukuruba (R Balu)

The Paradox of the dark-skinned Brahmin (Manu Joseph)

Gold, Taste & Timing (GWC)

Misdeeds of former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao (KR)

How Portugues pushed Goan Hindu widows to Christianity (SM)