Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Putin’s last laugh (American Conservative)

Iraq’s political dysfunction just got worse (Al Jazeera)

A view from a changed Germany (Times of Israel)

The Romanian Sludge King (Guardian)

The contradictory legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev (Smithsonian)

Secret deals ending Britain’s control over Gulf revealed (BBC)

Can the American Mall survive? (New Republic)

Thread: Ganesh Utsav as a public display of Hindu cultural unity (SM)

Caste Crime in Rajasthan (Fifty Two)

The unbearable lightness of Bollywood (Rahul Pandita)

On the rebellion of Ghulam Nabi Azad (M J Akbar)

Thread: Swami Prabhupada on Ahimsa (Anuj Dhar)

Thread: Why Shahrukh burned Ankita Singh to death? (Pankaj Saxena)

Ready for wine from Mizoram? (Mint)

Drive: Germany Road Trip (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

My Resignation Letter (Ghulam Nabi Azad)

Thread: The man trying to overthrow the Modi Govt (Alok Bhatt)

AAP: The unravelling (Open)

Thread: Delhi Liquor Scam Explained (Agenda Buster)

Thread: Why are Churches opposing Indian Infra? (Anshul Saxena)

The horrors of the war in Yemen (Guardian)

Why Sri Lanka’s collapse looms large over Bangladesh? (Al Jazeera)

Netanyahu on the Iranian nuclear deal (Arab News)

Pakistan’s Generals Vs Imran Khan (Time)

A star is born in Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

How Brown people run the White Empire (Indi Samarajiva)

The Fatwa and the birth of Muslim identity politics (Spiked)

Thread: The Islamic genocide of Hindus (Khalid Murad)

Getting back to Kipling’s India (American Conservative)

Auto: Owner Review BYD E6 Electric (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Nitish Kumar: The Last Gambit (M J Akbar)

On the Bilkis Bano case (Vir Sanghvi)

On the New Mexico killings (Op India)

Thread: On Crowd Funding Platforms (Dr Prashant Mishra)

The Century of Climate Migration (Guardian)

Lebanon suffers from Stockholm Syndrome (Arab News)

Corruption in the Ukraine War (Gray Zone)

The real role of Chechens in Ukraine (Al Jazeera)

Rushdie & Bombay (TOI)

Ailing Empire Blues (Baffler)

Pyramid Scheme (Truly Adventurous)

Why I left Academia (Quillete)

Auto Review: Tata Nexon EV Max (Team BHP)

Fashion: Masaba Gupta (Mint)

Thread: 15 Powerful Visuals about Life (Wisdom)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What drives Vladimir Putin? (Sergey Radchenko)

Thread: Nuclear War is possible due to Ukraine conflict (Clint Ehrlich)

Meet Cambodia’s cyber slaves (Al Jazeera)

New UK PM faces troubled times (Arab News)

Ride hailing in Uganda (ROW)

The first Indians in Dubai (Fifty Two)

Pakistan- The sick man of South Asia (Dawn)

The lessons of the Zawahiri Strike (American Conservative)

How Bolivia’s Tin Baron saved 20,000 Jews (Guardian)

Death by Ice cream (Jstor)

The political history of Raksha Bandhan (DailyO)

Syama Prasad Mookerjee: He saw the Future (Open)

Thread: The Aamir Khan Files (Agenda Buster)

Bike Ride: Spiti Valley (Dr Vijay Malik)

Thread: Feminism is a Scam (Brittany Martinez)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How the West is losing Ukraine (Brahma Chellaney)

China’s lack of response to Pelosi visit (RT)

Abe Sinzo and the end of the Kishi era (ANU)

Who runs Pakistan? (Dawn)

The shadow war between Israel & North Korea (TOI)

Western media & the war on truth in Ukraine (Al Jazeera)

Balkan states creep closer to Russia (American Conservative)

Yemen’s socialist experiment (Jacobin)

On Russia’s Cultural Wars (Zocalo)

On the Zawahiri assassination (Vir Sanghvi)

Disaster at 18,200 feet (BI)

How Tomato ketchup became Indian (Fifty Two)

How the Pope created Europe’s first bureaucracy (Palladium)

Drive: Chikkamagaluru in a Jeep Compass (Team BHP)

The rise of open water swimming in India (Mint)