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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Amit Jatia and McDonald India’s 15 year wait for success (Forbes)

Inside Sahara Dessert (Outlook)

Why I hate cricket (SunandaVashisht)

How to solve a problem like Swimfisher Airlines (Newslaundry)

The mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 (Atlantic)

The world’s oldest crown (NewYorker)

A dog’s life (Dawn)

Steven Cohen identified in new insider trading suit (BusinessWeek)

Joe Biden in winter (Politico)

In Pictures:How Kejriwal finally got Narendra Modi’s attention (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Zero Point,North Sikkim (TeamBHP)

What Juhi Chawla and Supriya Pathak did next (JaiArjun)

India’s Democratic Pageant (ShashiTharoor)

Movie Review:Gulaab Gang (GreatBong)

10 Rejection Letters sent to famous people (MentalFloss)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Emerge,splurge,purge (Economist)

Stirrings of a Right revolution (Swapan Dasgupta)

The Adani-Modi graph (Outlook)

IL&FS’s Archana Hingorani is upbeat (Forbes)

Jordan:The war next door (Caravan)

When Catherine the Great invaded Crimea (Smithsonian)

This photographer made $15,000 in one day on Instagram (Forbes)

The Indian Sanitary Pad Revolutionary (BBC)

In Pictures:The Kejriwal arrest drama (UnrealTimes)

How much money can you make off YouTube (Labnol)

Deconstructing Modi (GreatBong)

Travelogue: Winter Trip to Spiti (TeamBHP)

Deal Me Out (Baffler)

Behind the 100 Billion $ Commodity Empire that few know (Bloomberg)

How 150-200 tonnes of gold is smuggled into India annually (ET)