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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Rahul Yadav story you’ve never heard before (Haresh Chawla)

Shibulal: 60 and Rebooted (Forbes)

Lessons for journalists from Lalit Modi (Newslaundry)

Dying lonely in Japan (R&K)

A Nepali taxi driver in Qatar (Wilson)

A world without work (Atlantic)

What do Rahul Yadav’s IIT friends say about him (Qz)

Auto Review: Hyundai Creta (Team BHP)

The future of emerging markets (Laura Tyson)

Did Sanjay Gandhi slap Indira Gandhi 6 times? (Scroll)

Nikki & Bobby come to town (Open)

Games Cricket Godfathers play (Outlook)

What Jackie Chan taught Will Smith (Forbes)

Indian miner Adani makes his case (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gandhi bumps (Media Crooks)

Snoop Dogg feels the bite of Parsi legal culture (Scroll)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan (BBC)

Was studying in IIT worth it? (Scroll)

MAM Ramaswamy:The last King of Chettinad (Open)

The lesser known Wipro sibling (Forbes)

Will the Sun set on Maran’s empire ? (Newslaundry)

This is how Uber takes over a city (BusinessWeek)

The man who sleeps in Hitler’s bed (Guardian)

Zane’s secret (Washingtonian)

Is financial repression here to stay? (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:Lakshadweep (Team BHP)

The Ladhak Taxi Mafia (Team BHP)

The Hrishikesh Mukerjee Book (JaiArjun)

The violent legacy of India’s partition (New Yorker)

Gossip:Why Lalit Modi back stabbed Vasundhara Raje (Gossip Guru)

How Indians responded on Twitter to Bobby Jindal’s nomination (BuzzFeed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

eCommerce in India-Know the Seller’s Story (Rodinhood)

The caste culture at IIT-Madras (Open)

How the world took to Yoga (Outlook)

‘Hindu Nationalist’ Modi (Newslaundry)

Prestige’s Irfan Razack and his Mumbai dream (Forbes)

Will the hike in service tax be easily digested? (MoneyLife)

Elon Musk’s space dream almost killed Tesla (Bloomberg)

How Utah became the epicenter of Get Rich Quick schemes (TPM)

How ISIS crippled Al-Qaeda (Guardian)

A tribute to Guide in its 50th year (JaiArjun)

How far can Indian comedy go? (Caravan)

The Idiot’s guide to keep your car clean and shiny (TeamBHP)

Political Gossip:The man behind Brand Rahul (Gossip Guru)

On Curry (Angst in my Pangst)

Claw machines have been designed to steal your money (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dilip Sanghvi: Wind beneath his wings (Outlook Business)

The liquidity time bomb (Nouriel Roubini)

The quest for Hitler’s lost treasures (Der Spiegel)

How Sepp Blatter controls soccer (Bloomberg)

5 Huge Industries that never saw disruption coming (HP)

Making a business of recovering ancestral assets (Caravan)

On Alice in Wonderland (New Yorker)

Can China take a joke? (NYTimes)

This is what happens after you die (Ars Technica)

Travelogue:Western Arunachal in a Thar (Team BHP)

On Marks and Life (Great Bong)

How to make international phone calls without the internet (Labnol)

Photos: Coronation of Maharaja of Mysore (Outlook)

What if the Allies had lost World War I ? (Atlantic)

The ugly truth of fashion (Fashion Scandal)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The killing of Osama Bin Laden (Seymour Hersh)

J Jayalalithaa-The Phoenix (Open)

Marc Andreessen: Tomorrow’s advance man (NewYorker)

On Shoojit Sircar’s Piku (JaiArjun)

My Dad tried to kill me with an alligator (Outside)

Auto Ownership Review: Toyota Etios Diesel (Team BHP)

Gossip: Modi’s 12 Lakh Coat (Gossip Guru)

Mahindra World City: A township that dreams big (Forbes)

Anurag Kashyap-The runaway Director (India Today)

Is the Modi Govt losing the plot? (Media Crooks)

Iran-An unequal revolution fuels anger (Guardian)

Why the best way to see Iceland is by a horse (Smithsonian)

Settling the great India-Pakistan mango debate (Dawn)

The truth about Sovereign Wealth Funds (FP)

Tech startups in India attract big names and money (NYTimes)