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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Gallant saga of Indian soldiers in Haifa, Israel (SAT)

Has EU really solved its energy crisis? (RT)

Why did Pakistan crackdown on Bangladesh, Balochistan in March (NDB)

The Royal Reckoning (Open)

Most Canadians are indifferent to the British Crown (Jacobin)

Thread: The Blood Jewelry of Queen Elizabeth II (Bharadwaj)

Mikhail Gorbachev gave Russia a chance (Sergey Radchenko)

Jews and Keralaputras (Times of Israel)

Karoke Man (Truly Adventurous)

RTI in Bihar (Fifty Two)

Cocktails in India come of age (Mint)

The legendary Bhimji Parekh of Surat (BBC)

Thread: Bhaskara Sethupathi, Raja of Ramnad (Cogito)

The 250 Mile Trans Bhutan Trail (Smithsonian)

Travelogue: Athirappally Waterfalls, Kerala (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Blob’s perpetual War (American Conservative)

Ukraine & the myth of the new world order (Spiked)

Protests in Prague (RT)

Thread: Pakistan floods will reshape global agri markets (Nathan Carson)

The challenges facing Liz Truss (Open)

The truth about the Baltics (Times of Israel)

Thread: Sanjay Kumar Mishra (Agenda Buster)

Karachi’s Gangsta Jalebi (Dawn)

The secrets of India’s Royal Kitchens (Mint)

Mongols speaking Malayalam (The Print)

Thread: Tipu Sultan’s Jihad in Malabar (Savitri Mumukshu)

Thread: General Sagat Singh Rathore (Abhishek Anand)

Auto: Jeep is going all-in on electric SUVs (Verge)

Cyrus Mistry deserved better (R Jagannathan)

Obituary: Queen Elizabeth II (Smithsonian)