Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Red Emperor (Brahma Chellaney)

World faces most dangerous decade since World War II (V Putin)

Time to talk to Russia (American Conservative)

A bleak season ahead for Rishi Sunak (Guardian)

The world awaits Netanyahu (TOI)

The $30 Million Lottery Scam (Atlantic)

The genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics (Palladium)

On Filipino workers overseas (Kenyon Review)

On Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (Zocalo)

The revolution in Iran (Baffler)

The Crypto Story (Matt Levine)

The Azuljeo tilework of Portugal (Smithsonian)

Thread: The Vitruvian Man (Cultural Tutor)

Breakfast Cycling around Mumbai (Team BHP)

Thread: 10 Things that won’t matter in 10 Years (George)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

When the Hindu Right came for Bollywood (New Yorker)

Thread: The Propaganda of New York Times (Smita Barooh)

My bitter return to Palestine (Guardian)

Yemen’s future conflicts will be over water (Al Jazeera)

Tulsi Gabbard’s challenge to the US War Machine (RT)

Ukraine should learn the lessons of Lebanon (Arab News)

The SAS is about Britain’s Imperial Delusions (Jacobin)

When Culture becomes Propaganda (Spiked)

Why Fascism is fashionable again (Indi Samarajiva)

Fanaticism of the Apocalypse (Michael Shellenberger)

Tripura: Crossing Over (Fifty Two)

Thread: The historical lie of Maharaja Hari Singh (Kiren Rijiju)

Thread: Conversation with IAS Yuvaraj Karan & Nehru (RajeIyer)

Thread: One global piece of art every decade since 1300 (Cultural Tutor)

Obituary: Mulayam Singh Yadav (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Amitabh Bachchan: Legend & Legacy (M J Akbar)

On Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (Vir Sanghvi)

Gangland killings in Netherlands (Guardian)

The slow decay of the Conservative Party (Spiked)

Barack Obama still doesn’t get it (Jacobin)

The future of American Jews on campus (TOI)

The Sugar Babies of Stanford University (Nicola Buskirk)

Thread: How Demography is Destiny (Agenda Buster)

Thread: What the British found in Africa (Taz)

Swami Vivekananda: Guru to the World (Smithsonian)

Thread: Netaji & Durga Puja (Paper Clip)

Landslide at Kasauli (Fifty Two)

Thread: Vietnam through an Indian tourist’s eyes (Nikhil Narayanan)

Photographing Tigers in the wild (Team BHP)

Birding in Mizoram’s Phawngpui National Park (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Using Nuclear Weapons: This is not a Bluff (Vladimir Putin)

Congress 2022 (M J Akbar)

Who wins from demolishing the EU’s gas lifelines? (RT)

The US blew up the Nordstorm pipelines (Tucker Carlson)

All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front (American Conservative)

Taliban, Pakistan and the Heroin Networks (SAP)

Iran & the Hijab (Dawn)

Trussonomics is a childish absurdity (Guardian)

The rational case for a British Republic (Spiked)

2 Bombings in 1 Night is common in Sweden (Common Sense)

Rocketland (Verge)

Thread: Dr Ambedkar & Navratri (Dhaval Kulkarni)

A Nepali Dalit Mother’s accounts (Guernica)

Thread: Jan van Eyck, greatest painter of the Renaissance (CT)

Thread: 15 Hard Truths about Psychology & Life (PP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

10 Questions for thinking Muslims (Swarajya)

China: The Great Wall of Hubris (Open)

Putin’s Diabolical End Game (Times of Israel)

Washington’s Modus Operandi (RT)

Plight of Middle East’s Christians (Arab News)

Hungary’s perspective on the Ukraine war (American Conservative)

Food crunch in Pakistan (Dawn)

Thread: How Amit Agarwal makes $13 Million a year (Jon Davids)

How TikTok became an e-commece juggernaut in China (ROW)

Winston Churchill’s legacy is indefensible (Jacobin)

Debunking historical myths around Prithviraj Chauhan (Pragyata)

The changing definition of Heirloom Jewelry (Mint)

Thread: Why do we keep food for crows during Mahalayam (Anbezhil)

The servitude of our times (Indi Samarajiva)

Thread: How to fight Cancer naturally (Landon)