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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Two friends on a winter drive to Spiti,Himachal Pradesh (RishadMehta)

Muslims see through Mulayam’s game (Tehelka)

Behind the Assam killings (Newslaundry)

The steady rise of Pune’s Kolte Patil Developers (ForbesIndia)

The fighting Gurkha (IDR)

The fat lady is still singing (NewYorker)

First photographs ever taken of Jerusalem (Smithsonian)

Vladimir Putin’s triumph (Economist)

What will Microsoft be like if Satya becomes its CEO (BusinessWeek)

Sleaze and the unmanly man (JaiArjun)

Foreign workers of Dubai (NationalGeographic)

In pictures:Rahul Gandhi’s interview with Arnab Goswami (UnrealTimes)

A road trip in Thailand (TeamBHP)

Movie Review:Jai Ho (VigilIdiot)

What is it like to be financially poor (Rodinhoods)

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

The Biggest Misconception about birds (Smithsonian)

The brazenness of Bollywood (Open)

Residential investments in small towns are safer (ForbesIndia)

Law suits of the rich and famous (Newslaundry)

Gallery Chemould:The dreamers (Caravan)

Theatre of the AAPsurd (Tehelka)

Will one more female Billionaire make a difference? (NewYorker)

The last days of Blackbeard the Pirate (Smithsonian)

Last man fighting (Economist)

The pleasures of an all-women vacation (NYMag)

The shockingly low salaries of professional cheer leaders (Atlantic)

The Battle Clouds Loometh (GreatBong)

Rajgira is a superfood you should start eating (MumbaiBoss)

Travelogue:Ajanta and Ellora Caves (TeamBHP)

This is Danny Pearl’s final story (Washingtonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Technology can make your job redundant (Economist)

What happened to Baskin Robbins? (BusinessWeek)

How to find full length movies on YouTube (Labnol)

The Jat rage simmers (Outlook)

Ayodhya Shining (Open)

Mr.Manmohan, this is why the nation is angry (Tehelka)

Karachi Crusader (Caravan)

The Hindoos I would kill (Newslaundry)

Cash is King,Cash is blood supply (RamCharan)

The Khalistani Terrorism (IDR)

The earliest and greatest engineers were the Incans (Smithsonian)

Its expensive to be poor (Atlantic)

Travelogue:Kudremukha,Jewel of the Western Ghats (TeamBHP)

Spoof:Shashi Tharoor defends himself (UnrealTimes)

Why adolescence is more brutal to parents than the kids (NYMag)

On the phenomenon of Bullshit jobs (StrikeMag)

Arik Sharon-The General (NewYorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How unadulerated milk has become a premium product (MumbaiBoss)

The ugly truth behind IIT placements (Newslaundry)

The secret and dangerous life of my gay friend (TOI)

5 Startups to watch out for in 2014 (ForbesIndia)

The Neros of Uttar Pradesh (Tehelka)

The rise and fall and rise of facial hair (Atlantic)

The civil wars of Roger Ailes (NYMag)

Entrepreneurs and Con Artists (NewYorker)

Some Chinese Malls have “Husband Storage Facility” (Smithsonian)

The world economy’s shifting challenges (GeorgeSoros)

The return of the Ugly American (ShashiTharoor)

Middle East Security in 2014 (EhudBarak)

India shows who’s boss (Economist)

Spoof:How NaMo countered Arvind Kejriwal and AAP party (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Central Indian Forests in a Fortuner (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The road to Gurgaon (Caravan)

No takers for the Rahul Gandhi formula (Tehelka)

Why SAC’s Steven Cohen is not in jail (BusinessWeek)

Hezbollah under fire (ForeignAffairs)

Scientists turn algae into crude oil in less than an hour (Smithsonian)

10 countries where people live longest (MarketWatch)

How Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood (Atlantic)

A memory of Farooque Shaikh (JaiArjun)

Spoof:Vijay Mallya approaches Vinod Mehta to endorse Bagpiper (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:A serene Kasauli Trip (Ghumakkar)

Europe’s Ukrainian Blunder (ProjectSyndicate)

Bashar Al Assad:An intimate profile of a mass murderer (NewRepublic)

Driving from Kolkata to Bhutan in a Pajero (TeamBHP)

Qatar Chronicles (SBNation)

The American who gave his life for Chairman Mao (Atlantic)