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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 03 October, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

100 Years of RSS (Narendra Modi)

Ladakh on the boil (Goa Chronicle)

Social collapse looms in Pakistan (FP)

The Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Railway (Korybko)

The young UK generation are mollycoddled (Boris Johnson)

India has become Israel’s biggest cheer leader (ME Monitor)

How Canada squandered its Drone Lead (Walrus)

Japan between the Great Powers (Engelsberg)

The silence of the US Generals (Robert Hubbell)

Nightclubs of Lagos, Nigeria ( New Lines)

ChatGPT is blowing up marriages (Futurism)

Thread: True story about Shambuka Vadha & Eklavya (JD)

The curious story of Nawab of Arcot (Kaipullai)

An eyewitness account of the Goa Inquisition (Amit S)

Lee Kuan Yew’s eulogy for his wife (IM)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 26 September, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistan’s Mercenary Generals (Middle East Monitor)

Life is Poker, not Chess (Robin Guo)

High costs of India’s Health Care (Scroll)

The Sangh & the NorthEast (Open)

President Myung’s plan to reboot S Korea (Time)

The Gaza ‘Genocide’ (Spiked)

Russia’s Age of Contraction (Engelsberg)

Nepal picks up the pieces (Crisis)

India & the Caucasus (ORF)

A new Iron Curtain in Europe (Korybko)

Israel’s different approach to negotiations (Al Majalla)

Anti Americanism in Canada (New Lines)

The motivation behind 9/11 Terrorists (Rair Foundation)

The Tik Tok Template (Interconnected)

The world in which we live in (N Taleb)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 19 September, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Gaza is a manufactured Apocalypse (Al Majalla)

Israel’s Qatar strike shatters Gulf illusions (Cradle)

China exits Pakistan (FE)

The Saudi-Pakistan Defense Pact (Arab News)

Nepal’s Youth Uprising (New Lines)

The Jews’ coming Civil War (Spiked)

Israel is not Sparta (JPost)

Giorgia Meloni’s Balancing Act (Engelsberg)

Beijing’s Robot Army (NI)

Why AI Scientist Zhu returned to China (Guardian)

Andaman & Nicobar Islands Row (Organiser)

Hindustani Music’s decline in Pakistan (Scroll)

Rahul Gandhi: A non-serious politician (Print)

Thread: Catholic Church & Croatia Massacre (SU)

The Best Knives are from Sakai, Japan (Smithsonian)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 07 September, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Multi-Alignment is India’s Superpower (Shashi Tharoor)

The Case for a US alliance with India (Foreign Affairs)

The West has been given a rude awakening (RT)

How China is broadcasting its might (Time)

Is China’s mercantilism cracking up? (Engelsberg)

Syria’s deadly reckoning (Guardian)

The quiet War for Lebanon (ORF)

US intervention in Venezuela (Crisis)

What a Ukraine end game may look like (NI)

Hindu Hatred in the West (Arnab Ray)

The rise of Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir (Open)

Why wealthy Gurugram is a failed city (Scroll)

Emperor Hadrian’s Revenge (TOI)

Why European Royals loved playing real tennis (Smithsonian)

London’s best Indian food (BBC Travel)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 29 August, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why US can never be India’s ally (FP)

The Deep State wants to oust Modi (GC)

Roast: Donald Trump (Oliver Kornetzke)

NATO’s Anschluss (Dmitry Medvedev)

5 Realities of Russia-Ukraine War (Crisis)

Will Eastern Europe abandon Ukraine? (NI)

Myanmar caught between US & China (Korybko)

The Tibetan quest for Independence (ORF)

France’s secret: Military Brothels (New Lines)

Thread: Finland was a Nazi Germany ally (Rina Luru)

10 AI Application shaping the future (Time)

The End of Islam as an agent of history (Open)

Thread: The man who saved Ganesha Idols (K Balakumar)

Moraji Desai was a CIA mole (Ubermensch Jatt)

Book Review: Cuisine & Empire (PSmiths)