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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Strategic Implications of Indian Corruption (The Diplomat)

What happened in Maharashtra Politics in Oct-Nov 2019 (Sameet Thakkar)

The Conspiracy Theorists are winning (Atlantic)

The racist NY Times (Indi Samarajiva)

Was Sweden right? (Guardian)

A brief history of Islam in China (SCMP)

Hugging China hasn’t done us any favours (Spectator)

I don’t want to return to normal (Dr. Lisa McKenzie)

Nakba Day (Al Jazeera)

On Swami Chinmayananda (Sheshapatangi)

History: Malik Kafur’s Betrayal (LHI)

Nehru & Sardar Patel (Mint)

The anti-India, anti-Hindu and racist Charles Dickens (Sai Priya)

Just sip and flip (J Mathrubootham)

Why Copper is good at killing viruses (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Saudi, Putin, Oil & the Great Game (Indradeep Khan)

Normality returns to Hong Kong (ST)

UK : How NHS made the crisis worse (RT)

The tensions underlying Pakistan’s Ramadan decision (Atlantic)

Why the foreign media loves anti-BJP columnists (Print)

Why the Western media keeps getting N Korea wrong (Al Jazeera)

History: How the Marathas captured Attock (eSamskriti)

Why the media goes out of its way to humanise terrorists (Swarajya)

India’s lavish weddings go online (Dawn)

A million phone calls (J Mathrubootham)

My Dad’s extra-martial affair ( Sucharita)

On Bois Locker Room ( Dr Yamini Shaista)

Kolkata – The memoirs of a bruised city (Open)

Ramzan Diary (Outlook)

Labradors remain the most popular # 1 dog (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Why the Coronavirus is so confusing (Atlantic)

What happened on the Diamond Princess (Wired)

How the Pandemic has shattered the myth of College in America (New Yorker)

Does BCG vaccine really protect Indians from Coronavirus? (You Tube)

The Malaysian Job (Harpers)

China in Africa (Japan Times)

The force is still with Jack Dorsey (Vanity Fair)

Lessons on hope from a Hungarian forced labourer (Al Jazeera)

Motor Cycling in Western Arunachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

Haircut in the time of coronavirus (J Mathrubootham)

How did Indian History become a myth? (Nanditha Krishna)

When the 1897 bubonic plague ravaged India (Aanchal Malhotra)

Bharat Mata- From Art to Reality (LHI)

On Irrfan Khan (Danish Husain)

Obituary: Rishi Kapoor (BBC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An explosive look at so-called Civil Society Activists (Sumona Chakraborty)

On the Palghar Lynching (Makarand Paranjape)

What history tells us about epidemics (Granta)

Is an alcohol ban necessary during the lockdown? (Mint)

The Original Big Short of 1865 (Boston Globe)

Will Trump go to war with Iran? (RT)

Trump’s plan to save his Presidency (Atlantic)

Pakistan on a knife edge (Dawn)

Inside the world of Indonesia’s Islamic soap operas (SCMP)

My mother & Sathya Sai Baba (Al Jazeera)

The day I left Bergen Belsen (TOI)

On the Great Barrier Reef of Australia (Afar)

Where did bats come from? (Smithsonian)

How does one make an authentic Neapolitan Pizza? (BBC)

Dream Sequence Only (J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lockdown Leadership (Open)

The rise of a Hindu Vigilante (Wired)

How Saudi money changed Indonesia ( Guardian)

How China sees the world (Atlantic)

The friendly Mr. Wu (1843)

Chinese casinos in Cambodia (SCMP)

Corona may change Russia’s calculus in Middle East (Al Jazeera)

On the Corona Virus Pandemic (Dalai Lama)

The Catholic history of Propaganda (Qz)

Third Time Lucky (Michael Benjamin)

New York Covid Diary (NY Times)

Trek: Kashmir Great Lakes (Team BHP)

Cleaning Time (J Mathrubootham)

Jahangir’s scandalous coins (LHI)

27 ways to make breakfast from around the world (Nat Geo)