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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Thread: The current economic crisis in Sri Lanka (R Ramakumar)

The Empire of the Golden Triangle (Palladium)

Dmitry Firtash: Gas Powered Kingmaker (Guardian)

Why Russians hated the 90s (Unherd)

The race to build Mexico’s quickest Delivery App (ROW)

Pakistan: Free Play of Political Opportunists (Zahid Hussain)

R N Kao- The Gentleman Spymaster (Madras Courier)

Teams that have qualified for Qatar World Cup 2022 (Al Jazeera)

Brown Hunters ( Niyoshi Shah)

Caesar Vs Pirates (Truly Adventurous)

Travelogue: The Golden Triangle of Odisha (Team BHP)

Sudipta Sengupta: India’s first woman Antartica Scientist (BI)

SS Rajamouli: India’s biggest mythmaker (Kaveree Bamzai)

Thread: On how short life is (6529)

Thread: IPL Winning Warnie (Random Cricket)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Proof of Pakistan’s Proxy War against India (Stratnews)

Sanctioning Russia could topple the West (Unherd)

Thread: Putin’s power in Russia is surging (Clint Ehrlich)

The multipolar world dies in Ukraine (Palladium)

Why Afria does not appear to be standing with Ukraine (Al Jazeera)

Lessons from Ukraine from Lebanon & Syria (Arab News)

How did PM Imran Khan land up here? (Asad Rahim Khan)

On Chinese internet chatter on the Ukraine War (ROW)

Thread: US will not be able to prevent China from ‘going up’ (Tuvia Gering)

My Journey inside the Cyptosphere (Guardian)

Why Narendra Modi is the mother’s choice (M J Akbar)

Ami Bangla (Rasa Journal)

Sedition in Bihar ( Chitranshul Sinha)

Biking: 2 Months in Eastern Indo-Tibetan Himalayas (Team BHP)

In Photos:Ukraine (Atlantic)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

10 reasons why Zelensky is no hero (Leon Kushner)

Vladimir Putin has fallen into the Dictator trap (Atlantic)

China’s choice in the Russo-Ukrainian war (Hu Wei)

The CIA may be breeding Nazi terror in Ukraine (Jacobin)

Ugly truths in times of war (Al Jazeera)

Much of the world is ambivalent about the Ukraine war (TOI)

Thread: Russian Economy is run by Mafias (Kamil Galeev)

German Pacifism is dead (Unherd)

The Revenge of History (Spiked)

Kenya’s quiet slide underwater (Guardian)

Modi & the Monk (Open)

Interview with Arif Mohammed Khan (First Post)

This Congress Leadership is keeping BJP in power (Vir Sanghvi)

Political violence in West Bengal ( Prabhanu Das)

Thread: Sonia Gandhi headed a NGO whose goal was ‘Free Kashmir’ (Vijay Patel)