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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Hedge Fund Secrets lie in short term (Bloomberg)

Why I did not vote for the Congress (UnrealTimes)

Is the MBA bubble popping? (Atlantic)

How the potato changes the world (Smithsonian)

So,do you need Modi? (Open)

Aakar Patel’s doodles (Newslaundry)

Kapil Sharma:India’s Mr.Funny (Forbes)

Twitter looks for a perch in India’s media industry (Caravan)

SAC portfolio manager convicted (BusinessWeek)

Paper or plastic, who’s on the money? (NewYorker)

War in Syria:Where are the good guys? (Economist)

Cows might fly (Aeon)

Travelogue:Nepal-Kathmandu and Pokhara (TeamBHP)

Home of the Whopper (Harpers)

 

 

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Thailand and Cambodia fight over a Shiva temple (Economist)

Are Kashmiri Shias the next Pandits? (Tehelka)

Coaldust on them whites (Outlook)

Upper caste India’s debt to Dr.Ambedkar (Caravan)

HDFC Mutual Fund unwavered by recent failures (Forbes)

Coming soon Satya 7 (Open)

How to make proxy war succeed in Baluchistan (IDR)

It costs atleast $30,000 to climb Mount Everest (Smithsonian)

Love in the time of Bollywood (ForeignAffairs)

Obama’s credibility gap (Slate)

Photos:The great mansions of Manhattan (VanityFair)

Apple cores are a myth (Atlantic)

My Sachin Story (GreatBong)

Zomato-Two sides of a coin (Rodinhoods)

Travelogue:Chail (Ghumakkar)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The seduction of George Bush by Vladimir Putin (ForeignPolicy)

Why? (Open)

On Jhumpa Lahiri (Caravan)

Krrish 3 – The review (GreatBong)

SEBI issues notice to HSBC for cheating Suchitra Krishnamurthy (Moneylife)

The best case scenario for Twitter (Atlantic)

The A team killings (RollingStone)

Oops,you just hired the wrong hitman (GQ)

One day in the life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (FT)

How Obama turned things around (NYMag)

Cars:Underbody hits and cracked sumps (TeamBHP)

Vigil Idiot:Krrish 3 (MumbaiBoss)

Beastly scenes in four MAMI films (JaiArjun)

GS bets on Modi,Credit Suissee on Rajan (Bloomberg)

The Bond King’s shrinking realm (BusinessWeek)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why India Inc is scared (Tehelka)

The wages of fame (Outlook)

Countering Kejriwal (Newslaundry)

Chitra Ramkrishna:Queen of the Bourse (Forbes)

There are only 70 investment advisors in India (Moneylife)

Pakistan will never dismantle its Jehad machine (IDR)

Losing a sibling (NewYorker)

The CIA’s most highly trained spies were not even human (Smithsonian)

Obituary:Erich Priebke (Economist)

Why are taxis yellow? (Slate)

What happens next in the Twitter IPO (Businessweek)

16 Mistakes employees make while trying to get a promotion (Forbes)

How Mike Tyson became Mike Tyson (NYMag)

A brief history of dude (Atlantic)

The story of a die hard Rahul Gandhi bhakt (UnrealTimes)

Confessions of a Drone Warrior (GQ)

The Art of Stealing (NRC)

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Travelling with the Indian sex tourist to Tashkent (Open)

The many charms of Sheila Aunty (Tehelka)

Japan’s tormented relationship with its modernity (Caravan)

Economist:Thriving in the age of digital media (ForbesIndia)

The Indian Army-What’s gone wrong (IDR)

India’s sanitation disaster (Outlook)

What happens when a language has no numbers (Slate)

The 4500 year old city of Mohenjo Daro is crumbling (Smithsonian)

The coming collapse of Arab monarchies (ForeignAffairs)

How Oreos work like cocaine (Atlantic)

The story behind Rahul Gandhis “Escape Velocity of Jupiter” remark (UnrealTimes)

9 Best conversations of my life (Rodinhoods)

How the Goldman Sachs cafeteria works (BI)

A new way to know whats trending on Twitter (Labnol)

Travelogue:Fortuner goes to Ladakh,Spiti and Leh (TeamBHP)

Portrait of an Afghan Assasin (MotherJones)

I got hired at a Bangladeshi sweatshop (TheStar)