Tag: megalinkfest

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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Djokovic’s strange Australian odyssey (New Yorker)

How UK Universities have become sheep factories (Arif Ahmed)

China is watching Ukraine with interest (Atlantic)

How Russia is dividing Germany (Tarik Cyril Amar)

The challenges of operating a Airbnb in Cuba (ROW)

My Palestinian friend was killed by Israeli police (Guardian)

A reckless Israeli film crew in Nigeria (TOI)

The Con artist who sold investors a fake country (Hustle)

Drive: Rann of Kutch (Team BHP)

Dwarka: India’s submerged ancient city (BBC Travel)

The end of Karachi’s Empress market (Guernica)

How the Elgin marbles ended up in England (Smithsonian)

Kolkata’s Pice hotels (LHI)

Mohammed Sanaullah: The Foreigner (Fifty Two)

Neil Nongkynrih: India’s Piano legend (Madras Courier)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Britain falls apart (Atlantic)

Is Kazakhstan the next Ukraine? (TOI)

What France can learn from an Algerian football victory (Al Jazeera)

Why Iran will never forget US killing of Soleimani (Scott Ritter)

Japan’s new Aoyama Clan (Palladium)

The fightback against wokeness has begun (Spiked)

On President’s Rule (Alok Prasana)

On the Natraja (Prema L)

Dr. Bhagwan Singh Vs Michael Witzel on Aryan Migration (Satish Verma)

How the Potato chip took over America ( Smithsonian)

The curse of the Girlboss (Unherd)

The so called patriots of Bollywood (Tattvam Asi)

The Marshall-Vengsarkar rivalry (Random Cricket)

When Pakistan claimed the Andaman & Nicobar Islands (LHI)

The Pedagogy of Kindness (Sumana Roy)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Indian women are hooked to Asian skincare (Mint)

Interview with R Ashwin (Cricket Monthly)

Thread: Final Takeaways from the Farm Bills (Jyotilaxmi Kurup)

The Bill to change the Preamble to the Constitution (Roshni DSouza)

China cannot silence me ( Nyrola Elima )

America must optimise or collapse ( Murtaza Hussain)

Why the West cannot leave Hong Kong alone (RT)

Pakistanis don’t know what to do with their pre-Islamic history (Rafia Zakaria)

The economics of Broadway shows (Hustle)

The Secret is Crime ( Palladium )

In pursuit of Ladakh’s soft gold (Nat Geo)

Kanaklata Barua: Assam’s teenage martyr (LHI)

Solo: 3 Boats, 3 Men, 1 Race (Fifty Two)

7 Lessons from Yale’s most popular class (Zain Khan)

Real videos of Veer Savarkar (Rakesh Salunke)