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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

IPL: A League of its own (Open)

Thread: Why Manipur is on fire (SS Jha)

Russia’s new vision for taking on the West (Crisis)

Iran regime change via Reza Pahlavi (TOI)

Syria-Turkiye talks depends on water (Cradle)

Its raining IMF in Suriname (Al Jazeera)

The SCO & Indian challenges (ORF)

Thread: The Fourth Laddu (The Liver Doc)

Billionaires shouldn’t exist (Jacobin)

Who are the Anglo-Indians? (Zocalo)

Thread: Hari Singh Nalwa (Sadaa Shree)

Chanakya on when the enemy is stronger (HUYF)

Thread: The incredible story of Touria Chaoui (David Zabinsky)

Drive: Char Dham Yatra (Team BHP)

Thread: Expressions of Love in Arabic (Bayt Al Fann)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Endgame Karnataka (Open)

On India-Nepal border disputes (ORF)

Famine in East Africa (Al Jazeera)

Why the world has turned against Israel (Spiked)

Mexico’s Lynching Problem (American Conservative)

Britain is Dead (Palladium)

De-Dollarization kicks into high gear (Cradle)

Inside the crisis at Juventus (Guardian)

The Origin of the Kurds (Times of Israel)

The birth of the Pakistan Army (Dawn)

Debt shaming in Nigeria (ROW)

The Prince of Montenegro (Truly Adventurous)

Thread: Last stand of Rajputs at Somnath (Jay Vardhan Singh)

Auto Review: MG Comet EV (Team BHP)

Thread: A brief history of your favourite fonts (Cultural Tutor)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Gambler who beat Roulette (Bloomberg)

After Bakhmut ( Newsweek )

How Sudan plunged into Civil War (Guardian)

The missile strikes that killed Israel’s deterrence (Cradle)

Pakistan is hurtling towards an apocalypse (Dawn)

Poland’s Alarm (Kyiv Post)

New Census data creates ripples in Nepal (ORF)

Why is America still in South Korea? (American Conservative)

How France’s wealthy elites keep their grip on power (Jacobin)

Next steps for troubled Cyprus (Crisis)

The Vienna of Leopoldstadt (TOI)

The life and death of Atiq Ahmed (Open)

Thread: On Hindu kings destroying Buddhist temples (True Indology)

Holidaying in Georgia (Team BHP)

Thread: The Podu Dikshitars of Chidambaram (Kishore Iyer)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

China’s gameplan for Arunachal Pradesh (Brahma Chellaney)

Bhutan’s imperatives & India’s dilemmas (ORF)

Macron: Bantamweight Bonaparte (American Conservative)

Iran & Saudi Arabia (The Cradle)

Iraqi Kurdistan 20 years after (Crisis)

What Nevada stole from its native people (Zocalo)

Thread: On Private Armies (Thomas Fazi)

The curse of the Good Friday agreement (Spiked)

Birth rates are collapsing (Palladium)

How to be an ex-Pakistani (Dawn)

Israel-Split and United (TOI)

Where people drink beer for breakfast (BBC Travel)

Auto: Why Jaguar is struggling in India (Team BHP)

Thread: Indian Scientist G N Ramachandran (Sada Shree)

Rare footage of Veer Savarkar in Cellular Jail (Sameet Thakkar)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Israel’s Judicial Reforms: Lessons for India (Abhijit Iyer Mitra)

The fantasy world of Rahul Gandhi (Open)

Russia’s response to NATO expansion (WarOnTheRocks)

Xi & Putin bury Pax Americana (Cradle)

Tibet, China & the violent reaction of a wealth elite (Esha)

Pakistan’s Taliban dilemma (Crisis)

The last of the Hazaras in Pakistan (Dawn)

State of Democracy in US (MFA-China)

South Africa’s illegal gold mines (New Yorker)

Thread: What is Woke? (David Boxenhorn)

Preachy advertisements target only Hindu festivals (Ashwin Sanghi)

Thread: Guru Bangla Sahib (True Indology)

India’s 10,000 forgotten mansions (BBC)

Thread: Operation Brasstacks (Siddharth)

Thread: Dam Dam Mast Kalander (Punnu Khan)