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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Brazil’s richest man lost $34.5 Billion (BusinessWeek)

Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? (Smithsonian)

The United Colours of Abdullah (Open)

Alumni Cults:Inner most allies (Outlook)

Why is Hyderabad important? (Tehelka)

What threatens the best laid plans of Shivraj Singh Chouhan? (Caravan)

Yogesh Mahansaria’s second coming (ForbesIndia)

What we eat affects everything (Atlantic)

The end of the full college scholarship (MarketWatch)

Obituary:Robert Ford (Economist)

Darkness in Washington (NewYorker)

Once upon a time in the Middle East (MorningNews)

Letter from Kenya:Surviving Westgate (NewYorker)

Friends without benefits (VanityFair)

Sagarika Ghose quizzes NaMo and RaGa (UnrealTimes)

Initial ownership report:Toyota Fortuner (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Evolution explains why you will hate your daughter’s choice of mate (PsychCentral)

How two mad men brought the world to the brink of nuclear war due to India (Open)

The Sequoia guide to pricing your product (Sequoia)

Buffett:Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history (Bloomberg)

Delhi’s political cemetery (Newslaundry)

Is Sharif making a deal with the devil? (Tehelka)

History:The blood Meridian (Economist)

Shanghai’s New Free Trade Zone (BusinessWeek)

Youngest kid,smartest kid? (NewYorker)

My daughter’s homework is killing me (Atlantic)

Film Critique:Bimal Roy’s Naukri (JaiArjun)

Sexting,shame and suicide (RollingStone)

Spoof:Nandan Nilekani Vs Anil Kumble (UnrealTimes)

The best, brightest and least productive (RobertShiller)

Car Review:Grand Hyundai i10 (TeamBHP)