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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Re-Hinduisation of India (Open)

In PM’s work , echoes of a Maratha Queen’s legacy (IE)

Tse Chi Lop: The world’s most innovative Drug Lord (Toronto Life)

Hu Xijin: China’s Troll King (Guardian)

Delhi’s trash problem (Roshni D’Souza)

Its time for Boris Johnson to go (Giles Fraser)

Jewish extremist violence against Arabs (TOI)

The resurgence of Marcos dynasty in Philippines (Al Jazeera)

10 years of Kim Jong Un (Tom Fowdy)

Yale’s secret society Skull & Bones (Palladium)

How Shein reinvented fast fashion (RoW)

How Saffron Stays changed weekend getaways (Mint)

How Congress leaders reacted to Dwyer’s assassination ( Yung Bhujang)

How custard changed India’s sweet tooth ( Sharanya Deepak)

The story of the free eater (Dr. Prashant Mishra)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Obituary: General Bipin Rawat (PSU Watch)

Why Tibet is still crucial to India-China relations ( Mint )

Singapore is turning into a surveillance state nightmare (ROW)

Yemen war intensifies (RT)

The great Islamphobic con (Spiked)

The Second Death of Jiao Yulu (Palladium)

A surreal encounter with Yasser Arafat (Dan Perry)

The Butcher of Havana (Atavist)

The Indian Army: Story of Integration (LHI)

Half a Billion of Bitcoin lost in the dump (New Yorker)

Future Buses: Hydrogen or Electric? (Wired)

Blood, Sweat, Turmeric (Shilpi Suneja)

Drive: Meghalaya (Team BHP)

Hiking: Japan’s 1000km hiking trail (BBC Travel)

A dog’s life in Gurgaon (Nehmat Kaur)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

You can’t go wrong with IPL ( Boria Majumdar )

The drama of Sikkim’s merger with India (Fifty Two)

Russia moves in the Caucasus (Atlantic)

UK: Why elites are desperate to avoid discussing radical Islam (Spiked)

Pakistan: The hub of global terrorism (Madras Courier)

Killing civilians is fine if you are the US ( Tom Fowdy)

How the ANC destroyed South Africa (Unherd)

The Belt & Road strategy has back fired on Xi (Palladium)

The Barelvi Jinn is out of the bottle (Ayesha Siddiqa)

Remote workers face pay cuts at Google (Wired)

Indian tech cos are calling millions of workers back to office (ROW)

Travelogue: Maldives, post Covid (Team BHP)

Chennai: Chess Capital of India ( Sibi Arasu)

Arun Yogiraj: The Sculptor who created Adi Shankaracharya (Swarajya)

How Jack Ma flew too close to the sun (Reuters)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The rise of the Cryptocat (Open)

China tests India on the border every fortnight (Print)

Revenge of the Donald (Atlantic)

Why the Hazara people fear genocide in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

The coup in Sudan (David Kiwuwa)

Hezbollah’s regime without a State (Palladium)

Progressives are a gift to Islamism (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

Pakistan women & the Sari (Fifty Two)

DDLJ: The worst movie ever made (Rupal K)

The apology of Waqar Younis (Dawn)

Thread: Mass exodus from Indian media houses (Anindita Ghose)

Genocides by Sufis (Nitin Gupta)

A history of killing sparrows ( Karen Yuan)

Emojis have different meanings in different countries (ROW)

The Starlet Spy (Truly Adventurous)