Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Taiwan could be America’s Suez moment (American Conservative)

The Swedish Rape Crisis (Peter Sweden)

The tragedy of Russia (Spiked)

Bleak reality of Britain’s economy (Guardian)

What everyone got wrong about Brazil elections (Palladium)

Afghanistan’s Copper Deposits (Al Jazeera)

Thread: Afghanisation and De-Afghanisation of Orissa (Engineer Who)

Thread: Elon Musk lied about his degree (Capitol Hunters)

Thread: How Peter Thiel converted a retirement account into $5 Billion (Alex Banks)

How an AK-47 works (Tech Burrito)

Thread: The Kiss of Death (Manan Bhatt)

Life before Babri Masjid Demolition (Ramachandra Guha)

Resignation Letter of Pakistan’s first Law Minister J N Mandal (SPMRF)

Thread: How Amjad Khan became Gabbar (IWTKQuiz)

Travelogue: Eastern Himalayas (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Age of Hypercontrol (M J Akbar)

Thread: Real villains of Delhi pollution (Agenda Buster)

On the EWS Quota (Vir Sanghvi)

Fiji’s plans to escape rising sea levels (Guardian)

Unprecedented political crisis in Pakistan (Jacobin)

Locked outside the Gates of Europe (Guernica)

Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves (ROW)

Bollywood in crisis (Al Jazeera)

Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees (Verge)

Greenwashing has gone mainstream (RT)

The mirage of European Sovereignty (Palladium)

Fiction: Koru (Guernica)

Travelogue: Canara (Team BHP)

Thread: 15 Unique dishes from India (COB)

The sweet & sticky history of the Date (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistan is on the edge (Al Jazeera)

Modi’s Mazal Tov ! to Netanyahu (TOI)

What the rise of Fascism really looks like (Spiked)

How Coastal West Africa will shape the coming century (Guardian)

The Ayahuasca Story (Open)

Even the Good Billionaires are Bad (Jacobin)

Kohli’s innings was a song of God (SMH)

The enduring sexism of India’s tech industry (ROW)

The Dig that changed the world (Smithsonian)

The life & death of Anand Pal Singh (Fifty Two)

A touch of moss (Aeon)

How the Kanye West empire came crashing down (DailyO)

Travelogue: India’s first Dark Sky Reserve (Team BHP)

Thread: 12 Jyotirlinga Shivlings of India (Vertigo Warrior)

Thread: Bhoota Kola (Ranvijay Singh)

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)