Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Thread: South Africa has collapsed (Zombie Land)

Russia’s Lavrov gets cheers & jeers in India (WaPo)

The new Warsaw Pact (Engelsberg)

The West lives on in Afghanistan (Palladium)

New York Times has a Jesus problem (TOI)

Russophobia in America (RT)

India’s connectivity projects with Myanmar (ORF)

North East a success story (Shekhar Gupta)

Thread: Lies of Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge (Himanta Biswa Sarma)

Uddhav Thackeray’s hard fall (Open)

The trials of an Indian witness Nisar Ahmed (Guardian)

How Pakistan would view Abul Kalam Azad (DailyO)

The story of the Amur falcon (Mint)

Drive: Rann of Kutch (Team BHP)

The little known history of Champagne (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistan’s Alien Roots (Sai Deepak)

The rise of Amritpal Singh (Op India)

Thread: Roshni Act of J&K (Agenda Buster)

China’s position on the Ukraine Crisis (FMPRC)

Europe, Interrupted (American Conservative)

Baghdad Memories (Guardian)

Palestinian children are the explosives of the future (TOI)

Can India replace China to be voice of the Global South? (RT)

General Pervez Musharraf & I (Dawn)

Thread: Secular myths of a Christian West (Cogito)

The Suez Canal purchase (Engelsberg)

On Lord Dalhousie (HUYF)

Thread: Analysing one of the greatest speeches in history (CT)

Travelogue: Kamlang Tiger Reserve (Team BHP)

Fraternising with rats at Karni Mata Temple in Bikaner (Mint)

Wishing readers on the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Investing in Yogi (Open)

Thread: Mitrokhin Archives on the Congress Party (Agenda Buster)

Iran’s regime is in free fall (TOI)

Pakistan shouldn’t blame the Chinese (Dawn)

UK Christianity, out with a whimper (American Conservative)

How the West used Kiev to take on Moscow (RT)

Turkey has a knack for picking the losing side (Print)

What ails Google (Praveen Seshadri)

Bengal Opium (Engelsberg)

The fight over Bettiah (Fifty Two)

Battle for Harlem (Truly Adventurous)

Thread: On how Hindus are dehumanised (Dibakar Dutta)

Varanasi: India’s holy ‘City of Death’ (BBC Travel)

Travelogue: Kudremukha (Team BHP)

Thread: Why are the ancient Greeks so important? (Cultural Tutor)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How America took out the Nord Stream Pipeline (Seymour Hersh)

Why Ajit Doval met Vladimir Putin in Moscow (DailyO)

Turkish Earthquake & Erdogan (Guardian)

What is happening in Gwadar? (Dawn)

US-China War by 2025 (RT)

Everywhere Berlin (American Conservative)

Pervez Musharraf, the Accidental Dictator (M J Akbar)

The making of the Kargil disaster (Dawn)

Thread: Jallianwala Bagh of the South (Bharadwaj)

How people behave after a major earthquake (Manu Joseph)

Why Indian police shut down cities for VVIPs (Vir Sanghvi)

How Hindu Temples are being harassed in Kerala (Swarajya)

Thread: Why is India the most populous country? (Tomas Pueyo)

Why 2023 is the Year of Millets (BBC Travel)

Thread: Mughal-E-Azam (The Paperclip)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The mystery of Ramanujan’s dreams (Kristin Posehn)

Speech at 80th Anniversary of Battle of Stalingrad (Putin)

Chinese spy balloon over US military sites (Al Jazeera)

What to expect when Palestinian Authority collapses (TOI)

UK looks at Brexit with regret (Spiked)

Yamagami Tetsuya’s Revenge (Palladium)

Pompeo and the Saudi Prince (American Conservative)

The ‘Ideal’ Muslim Woman (Nadeem Paracha)

Thread: How Decathlon became #1Sports Brand of India (FinFloww)

The 1948 massacre of Maharashtrian Brahmins (Op India)

How ancient Hindu knowledge influenced German scientists (MIMG)

Thread: Insights from Dr Jaishankar (Shashank Mattoo)

The Divine Deities from Kantara (LHI)

Bijapur: Victory City (Fifty Two)

Thread: Where did the $ sign come from ? (CT)