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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 08 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Modi’s Moment at the G20 (Open)

On Saudi-India relations (Arab News)

Otto Von Bharat (American Conservative)

Taliban 2.0 (ORF)

Rising inflation hits Pakistan’s poor (Al Jazeera)

Assassinations in Gaza (Cradle)

Thread: Societies collapse without myths (Jash Dholani)

Google at 25 (Sundar Pichai)

Death on K2 (Insider)

Thread: The great Sam Manekshaw (Stavka)

Drive: Shimla & Chail (Team BHP)

Thread: On Asafoetida (Paperclip)

How bad is alcohol, really? (Walrus)

Trend: Shein plastic bags (ROW)

Thread: The best ‘Resist the Obvious’ story (Sahil Bloom)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 01 September, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Woes of Ashoka University (Open)

China’s farming push is about war (RT)

The world is going blind (Wired)

The Melilla massacre (Guardian)

Untangling Niger’s military coup (ORF)

Iran’s entry into BRICS (Cradle)

A Revival Doctrine for America (Vivek Ramaswamy)

Lock Imran Khan up (Baffler)

Anti-Christian attacks in Pakistan (Dawn)

Religious Jews own Ben Gurion a visit (TOI)

Forgetting the Ottoman Past (Al Jazeera)

On Cyrus the Great (Engelsberg)

How pornography forged the Trans movement (Spiked)

The Great Himalayan Ultra Race (Mint)

India’s beloved Mosur Dal (BBC Travel)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 18 August, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lukashenko on the future of Ukraine (RT)

A Wartime Dispatch from Poland (American Conservative)

India-China tensions on the global stage (ORF)

Pakistan Zindabad to Pakistan Se Zinda Bhag (Dawn)

Pakistan’s uneasiness with Afghanistan (Tribune)

Transnational Crime along the Mekong (Crisis)

The Eurocentric Fallacy (Guardian)

Israel’s land & rail proposal to the Persian Gulf (Cradle)

Biden’s bad Iran deal (TOI)

Muslim victimhood is an unassailable condition (First Post)

The Psychology of Meditation (Naval)

Manipur: The wages of Hate (Open)

Drive: Germany, Austria & Switzerland (Team BHP)

Germany’s Spaghetti Ice Cream (Smithsonian)

Thread: Different kinds of Lakshmi (Zionverse)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 12 August, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Indian Air Force attacked Mizoram (Posten)

How Chinese funds media & activists in India (Open)

Beware the Ides of August (Engelsberg)

Russians not welcome in Georgia (Guardian)

France never stopped looting in Africa (Cradle)

‘Regime Change Karen’ Victoria Nuland in Niger (RT)

Ignoring Belarus no longer possible (Arab News)

Jihadists in Cote D’Ivoire (Crisis)

Against Reparations (Spiked)

Beirut, at Sunset (Delacorte Review)

How British Intelligence overthrew Iran’s Democracy (DUK)

Jewish genocide in Budapest (TOI)

Atomic bombings of Japan was based on lies (Jacobin)

The First, Second & Third Anglo Burma Wars ( NAM I, NAM II, NAM III)

Dharmendra: From Garam to Naram (Jai Arjun)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 04 August, 2023

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Who set Nuh on Fire? (Open)

The coup in Niger (RT)

How I escaped China’s mass arrests (Guardian)

China’s dating apps tap into parental anxiety (ROW)

Why Americans left Church (American Conservative)

The new Russian ideology (Engelsberg)

How do you solve a problem like Kabul? (Dawn)

Massive outflow of youth from Nepal (ORF)

Netanyahu & the Muslim world (Arab News)

Power struggles in Egypt (Cradle)

Political Crisis in Thailand (Crisis)

The 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka (Al Jazeera)

How a Montreal copywriter swindled victims of $200 Million (Walrus)

Kaali: The Street Dog (Jabberwock)

Travelogue: Kollam to Goa (Team BHP)