Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Shah Bano 2.0 (Open)

Winning elections bigger than dynasties (Vir Sanghvi)

US Army is not ready for a war with Russian Army (SWJ)

Inside the Taliban’s return to power (Guardian)

Justin Trudeau’s phony dictatorship (Unherd)

The rise of antisemitism in Europe (TOI)

Demolitions in Nairobi (Jacobin)

Spotify in Pakistan (RoW)

France is living in Zemmour’s world (Palladium)

Thread: Why Stalin purged the Old Bolsheviks (Kamil Galeev)

Dr. Subramanian & Ludhiana Basketball Academy (Fifty Two)

Thread: Vasudev Balwant Phadke (Sadaa Shree)

Pune Engineers helps 26 Villages become drought free (BI)

Thread: My wife’s transformation (KA)

The story of how I met my education (Nisha Susan)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Mossad in Iran (BBC)

Modi’s Foreign Policy juggling act (Foreign Policy)

On the Historical Unity of Russians & Ukrainians (Vladimir Putin)

Is China committing genocide against the Uyghurs? (Smithsonian)

When France executed its own soldiers (Jacobin)

When Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees (Guardian)

The Bloody Sunday Cover Up (Kevin Rooney)

Reason for over-sized Macron-Putin table (RT)

Time to save Congress is now (Vir Sanghvi)

Lata Mangeshkar: Her Own Superstar (M J Akbar)

Thread: Lata Mangeshkar, the Photographer (Paperclip)

Its your friends who break your heart (Atlantic)

Thread: The Indian-origin Romas of Europe (Madeline Potter)

The Dragnet for M N Roy ( Gautam Pemmaraju)

Drive: Ladhaki Winter in a Thar (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China’s loss of solders in the Galwan clash (ANI News)

Challenges facing China (George Soros)

Putin’s next move is an open question (New Yorker)

No weakness in NATO’s Eastern flank (Al Jazeera)

The Muslim world isn’t coming to save Uyghurs (Atlantic)

Changes afoot in Middle East (Arab News)

Why Canada’s truckers will lose (Unherd)

Thread: Western barbarism in the Congo (Vivek)

The emptiness of Hillary Clinton’s politics (Jacobin)

Britain’s most successful real estate agent (Guardian)

Sex & the Holy City (TOI)

Thread: India’s ancient mathematicians were religious (Jeysundhar)

Thread: On Netaji’s ashes in Japan (Vidya Nagaraj)

Thread: Spanish Laughing Guy Meme is the greatest meme ever (Trung Phan)

Drive: Arunachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Putin has history on his side ( Dominic Sandbrook)

The real prize in Ukraine (Atlantic)

Pakistan’s strategic depth in Afghanistan (C Christine Fair)

How the US stitched up the Honduras garment industry (Guardian)

Lone sister of the Islamist Brotherhood (Rahul Pandita)

Turkmenistan’s ‘Gates of Hell’ firepit (Smithsonian)

Opposition to Australia Day (Chris Sweeney)

Britain has a Muslim anti-Semitism problem ( Rakib Ehsan)

Mourning the holocaust in 1945 (TOI)

Lessons from a failed Palestinian film ( Hamid Dabashi)

World’s best building is in rural Bangladesh (Guardian)

The nomadic Gujjar-Bakarwals of J&K ( Rayan Naqash)

Hyderabad or Bhagyanagar? (LHI)

Thread: Frustrated Desi Academics (Vishal Ganesan)

Thread: Vijay Lakshmi Pandit & Stalin ( Kavita Tewari)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Dolo 650 became India’s favorite snack in Covid (Print)

India’s tech sector has a caste problem (ROW)

#Hate (Rahul Pandita)

Millions could die in famine in Afghanistan (RT)

The defiance of Afghan women (Syed Irfan Ashraf)

Boris Johnson: The Party is over (Lance Price)

How to kill a God – the myth of Captain Cook (Guardian)

A Russian Victory in Kazakhstan (Al Jazeera)

Biden’s failing report card (Daily Mail)

Martin Luther King Jr’s visit to a Kerala school (BI)

Poona: Where badminton was invented (LHI)

On Sesa Naga (Hindu Aesthetic)

Khansama (Sadaf Hussain)

Thread: When was Pongal/Makar Sankranti? (Krish Ashok)

Thread: What is random great advice? (Trung Phan)