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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Thread: Maharashtra Politics explained (Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3)

The anti-Hindu origins of the Dravidian Movement (J Sai Deepak)

Thread: Why Congress is boycotting the Ayodhya event (Sreevidya B)

News channels are turning into religious channels (The Print)

The unravelling of Xi’s Empire (Open)

The decadent Davos elites (RT)

Pakistan Vs Iran (Reuters)

Pakistan: Without political engineering (The News)

The power struggle between the Al-Assad brothers (Al Majalla)

Rishi Sunak is 9th UK PM to bomb Yemen (Declassified UK)

The military lessons of the Russian-Ukraine War (ORF)

From Hindu Lite to Hindu (NBD)

Thread: The Sankaraman Murder Case (Star Boy Tarun)

Drive: Meghalaya & Arunachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

Book Review: The Education of Cyrus (PSmiths)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Prashant Bhushan & the anti-Hindu Delhi riots (OpIndia)

Dr. S Jaishankar in Russia (RT)

DMK puts Congress in a spot (Deccan Herald)

How Hamas weaponised sexual violence (NY Times)

The battle for the Arctic (Spiked)

Extortion plaguing Karachi Industries (Tribune)

The unraveling of military rule in Myanmar (Arab News)

Another difficult year ahead for Afghanistan (Al Majalla)

Chinese democracy is better than Western democracy (Sinification)

2023: The revenge of history (Engelsberg)

How AI shook the world in 2023 (RoW)

The British coup in British Guiana (Declassified UK)

The Mughal & the Tudor (Open)

Thread: 20 Top Indian Dynasties (Itihasika)

Travelogue: Kruger National Park (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The unravelling of secular intellectualism (Swapan Dasgupta)

Sacrifice of Kothari Brothers in Karsevak massacre (Swarajya)

Thread: CIA spy inside Indira Gandhi’s cabinet (Aham Brahmasmi)

Pakistan: Persisting Instability (Sushant Sareen)

Israel’s assault on Gaza (Jacobin)

Russia accuses Germany of theft (RT)

What China saw in Kissinger (Sinification)

My vision for new world order (Aleksandr Dugin)

Greta Thurnberg divides the Climate movement (Spiegel)

Sharia Australia (Rair Foundation)

Yemen’s dagger slices through normalization (Cradle)

The shameless coverup of the lab leak theory (Spiked)

Thread: Gayatri’s curse on Tipu Sultan (Shree History)

Ayodhya’s 1934 clash (Swarajya)

Thread: Why sleep is important (Priya Nagwani)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Meet new Telangana CM Revanth Reddy’s team (Print)

Armenia’s existential moment (Engelsberg)

Netanyahu may choose war with Lebanon (Cradle)

Where are the innocent people in Gaza? (TOI)

Iran’s Resistance Front is drawing recruits from Pakistan (ORF)

Jewish Londoners suffer worst two months (BBC)

Houthis to block Red Sea for Israeli ships (Arab News)

Orban outlines the future of Europe (RT)

Why the Elgin Mables matter (Spiked)

Pakistan: When hatred turns into rebellion (Tribune)

Changing the national narrative of Pakistan (News PK)

A very Muslim Christmas (Walrus)

Short Story: The Egg (Andy Weir)

Lord Wellesley adopted Maratha tactics to defeat Napoleon (Telgraph)

Birding Trip: Bharatpur (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s G20 Presidency, for the World (Narendra Modi)

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, dead (Rolling Stone)

Israel knew Hamas’s attack plans a year back (NYTimes)

America’s undying Empire (Guardian)

How Citizen Surveillance ate San Francisco (Wired)

Israel’s choice: Body or Soul (TOI)

What Arab states can do to punish Israel (Cradle)

How Islamism destroyed the Palestinian movement (Spiked)

Islamized UK: Muslims terrorize Hindus (Rair Foundation)

The predatory mindset of Pakistan’s elite (Tribune)

More Mexican women are joining criminal groups (Crisis)

Asia’s streaming influencers (ROW)

Travel: Karakalpakstan (BBC Travel)

Drive: 1500 km Southern Coastline (Team BHP)

Thread: The most useful thought razors (George Mack)