Tag: megalinkfest

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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

President Xi Jinping warns President Biden on Taiwan (FMPRC)

A Son’s Pilgrimage for a Warrior Father (Archana Masih)

Thread: St. Xaviers and the Hindus (Savitri Mumukshu)

Britain’s Rishi Test (Minhaz Merchant)

The possible US attack on Iran (American Conservative)

Lipstick & the Jews (TOI)

Beirut, fragmented (Al Jazeera)

Peter Thiel ain’t no genius, just a rich guy (Jacobin)

Ukraine on my blood & mind (Owen Matthews)

Dupes & Duplicity (Damn Interesting)

The violent struggle between property & people (Indi Samarajiva)

Whiskey Trail in Ireland (Joanna Lobo)

Thread: Pune Food Trail (Junisha Dama)

Travelogue: Zanzibar (Team BHP)

Thread: Don’t take holiday membership (Dr Prashant Mishra)

Some offbeat reads for the weekend:

The early India Internet (PeaBee)

The plot against Modi (Open)

Is Jharkhand going the Maharashtra way? (India Today)

Pakistani grooming gangs in UK (Spiked)

How Manchester sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite (Guardian)

War will decide the fate of Transnistria (Palladium)

US Strategic Ambiguity on Taiwan (American Conservative)

Pelosi’s Taiwan visit (RT)

Germany’s love affair with its cars (Enselberg)

Instagram is fueling a thrifting boom in South Asia (ROW)

Nikolai Vavilov, Soviet Scientist (Damn Interesting)

How Cesarean Births became a global epidemic (Zocalo)

The Prosperous Migrants (Rafia Zakaria)

Racism in Europe (Reddit)

Thread: Temples in Telugu states (Sada Shree)