Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

West is ‘In a War with Russia’ (Viktor Orban)

India’s indifference to Pakistan (M J Akbar)

Pakistan’s dark age (Al Jazeera)

Croatia’s ties with Nazism (TOI)

Brazil :Bolsonaro’s long shadow (Baffler)

Vietnam’s Red Napoleon (Palladium)

Amsterdam’s Under Water Garage (Verge)

The Native Americans who visited Europe (Smithsonian)

Humans Vs Elephants in Hassan (Fifty Two)

Thread: Savitribai Phule was a British missionary (True Indology)

Society weddings in Pakistan (Dawn)

On Fauda’s global journey (Mint)

Thread: Book Launch Strategy of ‘Atomic Habits’ (Rahul Mathur)

Grand Palaces of India (LHI)

Thread: The first known writer in human history (CT)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Ilham Aliyev & the making of Azerbaijan (Palladium)

Exposing the fraud that is BBC (Anand Ranganathan)

Japan rearms for war (RT)

Finland & Estonia PMs- ‘ Girl Boss’ Militarism (American Conservative)

Thread: How NATO provoked Russia (Venkatesh Ragupathi)

Pakistan & Bollywood: A broken bond (Al Jazeera)

Pranksters harassing Indian Scam Call Centres (ROW)

The truth about China’s Cultural Revolution (Guardian)

How GDR fell in love with the West (Engelsberg)

Joshimath: Once upon a town (Open)

Thread: Nizamuddin Auliya (True Indology)

Unceasing struggle of the Adivasis of Palamau (Fifty Two)

The Hamilton Road in Kurdistan (BBC Travel)

Thread: The Thinker of Rodin (Cultural Tutor)

Obituary:Mukkaram Jah Bahadur, Nizam of Hyderabad (Dawn)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The unrelenting quagmire of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Dawn)

What does Xi Jinping really think (Engelsberg)

Atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh (One India)

UK: 50 years of lies about Europe (Spiked)

The Taiwanese Expedition (American Conservative)

South Africa’s infamous Ultra Marathon Cheats (BI)

Mahmoud Abbad: The Perpetual Dictator (TOI)

Invocation of the Incarnate (Bibek Debroy)

Travelogue: Greece in Winter (Team BHP)

Lohri: The Legend of Dulla Bhatti (LHI)

Thread: Muslim Kung Fu (Bayt Al Fann)

The forgotten magnum opus ‘Andolan’ (Fifty Two)

Thread: The Great Wave of Kanagawa (Cultural Tutor)

Electric Air Dusters rock (The Verge)

Thread: 10 Countries with their divine version of Ramayana (Raghu)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Islamic migrants create havoc in Germany (Rair Foundation)

Pakistanis are in deep despair (Dawn)

Interview of S Jainshankar in Austria (You Tube)

Thread: On Shah Rukh Khan (Ashwini Shrivastava)

The end of Indonesia as we know it (Open)

No one will miss Nancy Pelosi (RT)

Racism at Australian Cricket Venues (The Age)

Thread: Patel Motel Cartel (Nathan Barry)

Scammers on Amazon Pakistan (ROW)

The power & peril of the ICU (Baffler)

Thread: How ancient Indians used to insult (Vedic Wisdom)

India’s spiritual city that ‘sings’ (BBC Travel)

Thread: How David Beckham earned $500 Million (Joe Pompliano)

Upcoming new Indian car launches in 2023 (Team BHP)

Thread: The art of Caravaggio (Cultural Tutor)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Sorry Kamala. Nobody thinks you are a strong leader (NY Post)

Ron DeSantis, Man of the Moment in America (Spiked)

Historic tipping point in EU-China relations (Arab News)

How China learned to love the Bomb (Engelsberg)

The History behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Smithsonian)

The 1968 expulsion of Jews from Poland (TOI)

Thread: The Book Market of Baghdad (Bayt Al Fann)

On India-Pak cultural ties (Fifty Two)

When Jamaican Slaves rebelled on Christmas Day (Jacobin)

Invictus in an Albanian Jail (Baffler)

History: Becoming Jinnah (Dawn)

Thread: Churchill didn’t cause the Bengal Famine (Andreas Koureas)

The Seven Women of Mohenjadaro (LHI)

Thread : 12 Days of Christmas (Cultural Tutor)

Obituary: Pele (Open)