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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

3 wishes of Sonia that Natwar respected (GossipGuru)

The Sadness of the Comic (GreatBong)

Must Have Apps for your Android phone (Labnol)

Travelogue:Short Trip to Amritsar (TeamBHP)

Travelogue: 3000 Kms roadtrip to Kutch (TeamBHP)

The most wanted man in the world (Wired)

The Yazidis-A people who fled (Atlantic)

Chinese town does brisk trade in Cambodian wives (MarketWatch)

The wrath of Imran Khan (Economist)

Antartica’s blood red waterfall (Smithsonian)

Iraq and Syria’s poetic borders (NewYorker)

Pakistan Army’s official take on the 1948 invasion of Kashmir (IDR)

The Caste Factor in Indian Television (Newslaundry)

Naipaul and the Hindu gangsters of Bombay (OutlookIndia)

CPM-Headed for a free fall (Tehelka)

I-Day:Real Freedom from Sickulars (MediaCrooks)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How SREI Infra recovered money from Kingfisher Airlines (Forbes)

One Aspirin a day keeps the cancer away (Smithsonian)

Alibaba’s IPO marks the end of US e-Commerce dominance (Businessweek)

Monkey See,Monkey Click (NewYorker)

Watching the eclipse in Russia (NewYorker)

Gaza – A man’s war (Atlantic)

Nepal-The ticking time bomb (IDR)

Vladimir Putin Vs Garry Kasparov (NYTimes)

How Modi Tackled the”Where are the Acche Din Question” (UnrealTimes)

Auto Review:Tata Zest (TeamBHP)

Maruti Workers from Manesar are still in jail (Outlook)

Cricket & Pakistan-The Curse of the Game (MJ Akbar)

Why did Indians not venture out into the sea? (Quora)

Is Modi keeping tab on what his ministers are wearing? (GossipGuru)

Lajja (Taslima Nasrin)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Mukesh Ambani-An unloved billionaire (Economist)

Disgruntled and Dangerous (Open)

Disillusioned with the rat race (Newslaundry)

Psychological issues at mid career (ForbesIndia)

A Two-Two as Army Chief (IDR)

Ten curious facts about octopuses (Smithsonian)

An interview with Hamas’s Khaled Meshaal (Bloomberg)

Qatar-The dishonest broker (ForeignAffairs)

Libya-The consequences of dreams (NewYorker)

Saharanpur-Heroes and Villains (MediaCrooks)

A South Korean Tycoon’s downfall (NYTimes)

How to cover communal riots in India (UnrealTimes)

What are the hottest startups as of Jan 2014? (Quora)

An ideological history of the Muslim League (Dawn)

Movie Review:A Kick to your brain (Heartranjan)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Burger King is run by children (BusinessWeek)

A desperate town hands over its DNA (PSMag)

How the Israel-Palestine peace deal died (NewRepublic)

An ode to the Bee Gees (ParisReview)

Travelogue:Sana’a ,the capital of Yemen (IdleWords)

Pitbull:Get Rich or Die Shilling (BusinessWeek)

Music,fantasy and colour in V Shantaram’s Navrang (JaiArjun)

Aap Ki Adalat to replace the judicial system (UnrealTimes)

India’s Chinese Dream (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Mandarmani & Tajpur (TeamBHP)

Israel’s Other War (NewYorker)

What happened to Dinesh D’Souza? (Atlantic)

Why the Japanese are having so few babies (Economist)

Turning Ethiopia into China’s China (BusinessWeek)

Persistence of the Rahul Gandhi Question (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The downing of MH17-A precedent for the  World’s battlefields (Atlantic)

How Russian hackers stole the NASDAQ (BusinessWeek)

Booming until it hurts (RobertShiller)

Fear & Foreboding in South Block (Open)

An Israeli shot in India’s arm (Tehelka)

Taking the taste of Bikaner global (ForbesIndia)

How Actors were transformed into Apes (Smithsonian)

Why do we have blood types? (Mosaic)

The Craigslist Killers (GQ)

If Bollywood Directors had directed the “Dawn of the Apes” (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Conquering the Marsimik La (TeamBHP)

How I write (WilliamDalrymple)

Goodbye Yahoo Chat ! Goodbye Orkut ! (GreatBong)

What is the biggest misconceptions Indians have about India? (Quora)

Jains want Palitana to be declared a vegetarian zone (Outlook)