Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Inside the siege of Amarula, Mozambique ( Outside )

On Russia’s onslaught in Eastern Ukraine (New Yorker)

Washington’s failed push for Anti-Russian global consensus (American Conservative)

When Israel attacked America (RT)

Netanyahu to regain power in Israel (TOI)

Pakistan in 2047 (Dawn)

The truth about Gyanvapi (Sandeep Balkrishna)

How we can defeat targetted killings in Kashmir (Brigadier Narender Kumar)

How Economic Warfare backfired in Ancient Rome (Zocalo)

The Works of the Monster of Showa (Palladium)

America deserves gun violence (Indi Samarajiva)

A dispatch from Cannes 2022 (Baffler)

Gujarat’s Fishermen: Cast Away (Fifty Two)

The Nightmare (Minal Dave)

Spoof: Ukrainians reflect on first 100 Days of War (The Onion)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China’s India Complex (Shyam Saran)

How Germany got hooked on Russian energy (Guardian)

Western media now wants Ukraine to make peace (RT)

US has no endgame in Ukraine (Jacobin)

Putin’s war is just beginning (Unherd)

Thread: De Gaulle’s view on colonization (Arnaud Bertrand)

Why I no longer celebrate Jerusalem Day (TOI)

A perfect storm is brewing in N Korea (Al Jazeera)

A fragile life in Yemen ( Zocalo)

Spoof: No way to prevent this (The Onion)

The Almighty Gun (Rafia Zakaria)

Cricket: Numbers Game (Himanish Ganjoo)

Thread: Rise of Kishore Kumar ( Dr Snow)

Thread: Day in life of Hedge Fund Analyst ( Net Cap Girl)

On KK’s song Yaaron (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Modi: Decolonising the Indian mind (Open)

A tale of two Conclaves (Op India)

Why Kapil Sibal exited Congress (Print)

How Doctors Die (Zocalo)

Is the US winning Russia’s war in Ukraine? (Manlio Graziano)

New silent Intifada (Ray Hanania)

School shootings are now as American as Apple Pie (Belen Fernandez)

My Latvian grandfather. Nazi or KGB agent? (Guardian)

How the Ukraine Crisis ends ( Henry Kissinger )

A fading future in Istanbul (Ahmed Askary)

Transnistria is too old for war (Unherd)

Surendra Nath Sehgal, Microbiologist (Sukhada Tatke)

Nikhat Zareen, Boxing Champion (Mint)

Travelogue: North Sikkim (Team BHP)

Thread: Kerala temple made famous by thieves (Ayudhika)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

A 2047 Template (Bibek Debroy)

Rahul Gandhi must go (Vir Sanghvi)

The clash of Asia’s Titans (Brahma Chellaney)

The US State Department will prevent the peace (David Sacks)

Sweden & Finland in NATO (Doug Bandow)

The El Salvador Diaries (Belen Fernandez)

George Bush’s Iraq Slip (Bradley Blankenship)

Pakistan Exchange Rate Bluff (Riaz Riazuddin)

Nakba: When independence is catastrophe (Haviva Ner-David)

Why Black British lives don’t matter (Tomiwa Owolade)

Why our nuclear fears faded (Guardian)

Don’t be afraid of life (Ruskin Bond)

Why India’s Thomas Cup win is a big deal (Mohammad Bilal)

Resistance (Sayantan Datta)

Thread: 21 Powerful Pictures (Thinking Deep)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The fall of the brothers Rajapaksa (Open)

Imran Khan’s U-Turn on India (Naila Inayat)

Congress has to split to revive (Seshadri Chari)

Finland moves to join NATO (US News)

Russia’s ‘gas weapon’ is a myth (Al Jazeera)

The US-China trade war is about to hit the Middle East (Jacobin)

Bollywood can cement ties between India & Saudia Arabia (Arab News)

Why Catalonia failed (Palladium)

Jubao in China (New Yorker)

The invincible business of Counterfeit goods (Guardian)

The nuclear family has failed (Unherd)

In the Court of the Liver King (GQ)

Thread: The storytelling framework that Steve Jobs uses (Nathan Baugh)

What makes a fart a fart? (Slate)

Obituary: Shiv Kumar Sharma (Open)