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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

No Indians Please:Singapore’s Rental Discrimination (BBC)

Arvind Kejriwal:The Runaway Messiah (AatishTaseer)

Nita Ambani’s Rs.4 Million Sari (FashionScandal)

Thanksgiving in Mongolia  (NewYorker)

How to lose $100 Million (Politico)

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured (NewYorker)

Travelogue:Koh Lanta,Thailand (TeamBHP)

The Quixotic EC (MediaCrooks)

The most awesome candidates of elections 2014 (GreatBong)

Nigeria’s stolen girls (NewYorker)

A Eulogy for Twitter (Atlantic)

Jet Airways:In a tailspin (ForbesIndia)

Sick of Mumbai’s restaurant scene (MumbaiBoss)

Warren Buffett lost $132 Million on derivatives (BI)

Modi and Muslims (SwapanDasgupta)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The story of Larry Page’s comeback at Google (BI)

The comfort of masks (AatishTaseer)

The unfulfilled ambitions of Sharad Pawar (Caravan)

Arvind ripples,Modi waves (Newslaundry)

How Ruby Arya overcame her personal tragedy to head Milestone Capital (Forbes)

Women face the confidence gap (Atlantic)

Steve Wynn’s biggest gamble (VanityFair)

The startup that wants to put Starbucks out of business (Slate)

Londongrad calling (ForeignAffairs)

Its now possible to travel through time (Smithsonian)

The return of the stay-at-home mother (Economist)

Twitter wants to be your TV (BusinessWeek)

In pictures:How Sagarika Ghose sees things (UnrealTimes)

Movie Review:2 States (VigilIdiot)

What if a Parsi was the Prime Minister of India (ParsiKhabar)

Alarm Bells in Asia (BrahmaChellaney)

Travelogue:Sharavanabelagola (Ghumakkar)

Travelogue:Himachal Drive (TeamBHP)

 

Some off beat reads for the long weekend :

Mrs.Vadra is in trouble and she knows it (NitiCentral)

The agony of being M Kurananidhi (Open)

Pakistan considers life next to a Modi led India (Outlook)

The hard won victories of Mamata Bannerjee (Caravan)

Reliance Life’s murky business practices (MoneyLife)

The spectacular failure of the company that was going to change the world (FastCompany)

The problem with profit less startups (NYMag)

Why Viral Fever is the funniest comedy channel in India (MumbaiBoss)

A Desi living in Germany (TeamBHP)

Death of democracy in Gurgaon (Kafila)

How to raise money (PaulGraham)

Putin’s new kind of war (Slate)

How did Yahoo’s fired COO get $58 Million?Good Timing (BusinessWeek)

The Man behind Dam Dam Mast Qalandar (Dawn)

Analysis of Modi’s Aap Ki Adalat interview (Newslaundry)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why we eat and why we gain weight (NewYorker)

Amit Shah:His Master’s Mind (Open)

Crony Capitalism: Navin Jindal (Outlook)

The Travails of India’s first Election Commissioner (Caravan)

When Vajpayee gave Sonia Gandhi a lesson in Rajneeti Dharma (NitiCentral)

This tower pulls drinking water out of thin air (Smithsonian)

Samsung’s war at home (Businessweek)

Learning to love middle age (NYMag)

Living in a world of low real interest rates (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Ooty & Conoor (TeamBHP)

In Pictures:How BJP’s delayed manifesto destroyed Modi’s chances (UnrealTimes)

Stillness & Tehzeeb -Waheeda Rehman (JaiArjun)

Dawkins on Imran (Dawn)

Pakistan:Politicians Vs Army (Economist)

Biologists confirmed God evolved from Chimpanzee Diety (Onion)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Obituary: Kushwant Singh (Open)

Kushwant Singh pre-Obituary from 1983 (Wearethebest)

The truth about Tipu Sultan (SandeepWeb)

When to become an entrepreneur? (Bhikchandani)

Inside the Milk Machine (ModernFarmer)

The Devil and the Art Dealer (VanityFair)

Interview with Madhu Trehan (MumbaiBoss)

Is Putin like Adolf Hitler? (Atlantic)

The Tequila Diet (NYMag)

Harley Street 750 Test Drive (TeamBHP)

Does Kejriwal suffer from the Alok Nath Syndrome (GreatBong)

Tere Mere Sapne-A visual treat (JaiArjun)

Keeping the mystery out of China’s meat (BusinessWeek)

Despatch from Ayodhya (Kafila)

US Court Vs Sonia Gandhi (MidDay)