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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)

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)