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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China’s troubling new military strategy (Atlantic)

Everyone’s anti-war till the propaganda starts (RT)

Ukraine: From bread basket to bread crumbs (Al Jazeera)

Balochistan: Pakistan’s festering wound (Dawn)

What happened on Spicejet flight SG945? (HT)

Why is it so hard to control our appetites? (Raj Telhan)

How Morarji Desai became PM in 1977 (Open)

Madeline Albright’s legacy of war making (Gray Zone)

Kunapajala: World’s first natural pesticide (BI)

Travelogue: Lansdowne (Team BHP)

Thread: A Tamil mutt transferred power from British to India (S Gurumurthy)

Thread: Why I regret selling WhatsApp to Facebook (Neeraj Arora)

The endless exile of Ayoob Mohammed (Walrus)

India’s Foreigners Act (Nandini Ramachandran)

Why voting is dumb ( Indi Samarajiva)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Standing upto China’s belligerence (Open)

China’s leadership is prisoner of its own Narrative ( The Market )

The Comeback of China’s elites (Palladium)

The warped mind behind Russia’s War (Spiked)

Is Ukraine just a White Man’s War? (Unherd)

Can Putin do the unthinkable? (Dispatch)

Open Conflict between Pakistan & Taliban (Dawn)

Hong Kong: The Yellow Chair (Madeleine Slavick)

The lost Jews of Nigeria (Samanth Subramanian)

Why Germans have become immigrants to Paraguay (BBC)

The Great North Indian Wedding (Saurabh Sharma)

The Hustler at the end of the World (Verge)

The Revolutionary (Truly Adventurous)

Ashoka’s Kandahar Edicts (LHI)

How Economists are the worst (Indi Samarajiva)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Dynasties rule Bollywood (Kaveree Bamzai)

How Oxford Union created UK’s current political ruling class (Guardian)

Iran’s Supreme Leader in waiting (Arab News)

Inside Pakistan’s tech investment boom (ROW)

Sri Lanka & the IMF (Indi Samarajiva)

The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (TOI)

The Taliban were Afghanistan’s real modernizers (Palladium)

How the Ukraine war saved Orban (Unherd)

Islam & the making of the West (Spiked)

Thread: War in Taiwan (Tong Zhao)

The Peanut King (Guernica)

Big Tech has no power at all (Gray Mirror)

Thread: Combined Arms Warfare (Andrew Fox)

The return of Bali’s lost super food (BBC Travel)

Pravin Patel, Hydroponics pioneer (Better India)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Frustration levels high for Chinese citizens under lockdown (Ian Bremmer)

India’s multi-aligned foreign policy (RT)

Inside Imran Khan’s anti-Americanism (Open)

Pakistan-An economic catastrophe (S Akbar Zaidi)

Bread crisis in Lebanon (Arab News)

Wine washing the Israeli occupation (Al Jazeera)

The only way Boris Johnson can survive PartyGate (Unherd)

The quest to build electric cars in Bolivia (ROW)

Saudi TV mocks Biden (Asaad Sam Hanna)

El Dorado, City of Black Gold (Aliyah Khan)

A Goan returns to Goa (Joanna Lobo)

The surviving Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir (Karan Mujoo)

The West are just Nazis that won (Indi Samarajiva)

The racist US Professor Amy Wax (Print)

Travelogue: Kalimpong (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Imran Khan: The Reckoning (M J Akbar)

How to stop China & the US going to war (Kevin Rudd)

The Killer in the Kremlin (Octavian Report)

Why Hungarian PM Viktor Orban matters (Paul Gross)

Power struggle in UK (Unherd)

The final blow to Hong Kong (Atlantic)

On the crisis in Sri Lanka (Al Jazeera)

Starvation in Afghanistan (Arab News)

Searching for Swadesh (Nirupama Dutt)

Jeep Compass: Diesel Vs Petrol (Team BHP)

Thread: 15 years of ‘The Namesake’ (Dr Snow)

Satyajit Ray lives on in Jaisalmer (Sandip Roy)

Bihishtabad: Tomb of Emperor Akbar (LHI)

Why is a Dragon carved on a Jain temple in Mangalore? (Print)

To my lost Trishaw Driver (Pico Iyer)