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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

5 Steps to 1 Billion doses (Bill Gates)

Muslim Kashmir Vs Hindu India (Firstpost)

Kashmir’s new insurgency (Rahul Pandita)

Say NO to the Woke Revolution (Bari Weiss)

Zhang Yiming’s last speech (Interconnected)

How Hong Kong’s elite turned on democracy (Atlantic)

Are the Israelis deliberately seeking conflict? (RT)

The psychological tricks of IKEA (Trung Phan)

Biryani in Karachi (Fifty Two)

The flute seller (Ramki)

Where has the Nassak diamond disappeared? (Ranvijay Singh)

The ‘Houses’ of Delhi (Amit Narang)

Making of the iconic Air India Maharajah (AIC)

The legendary Maj General Ian Cardozo (Shalini Singh)

Colin Powell was a killer ( Belen Fernandez )

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Why & How Devi is celebrated during Navaratri festivities (Bibek Debroy)

The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning ( Palladium )

Clash of China & India (RT)

Pakistan is facing an existential climate crisis (Al Jazeera)

Why the Afghans did not fight (Mohammad Hossein Jafarian)

America’s trust of the media is in the Gutter (NotTheBee)

MIT abandons its Mission. And Me (Bariweiss)

White Riot in New York (NYMag)

J&K Delimitation Exercise aims to correct a historical wrong ( News18)

What frightens Rahul Gandhi (Minhaz Merchant)

The Noakhali massacre of 1946 (Bibhu Ranjan Dash)

On work related burnout (Dr Devashish Palkar)

Instagram is toxic for teens. Here’s Why (MC)

The story of the Afghan bird at French Embassy (Xavier Chatel)

On India’s Marathon Culture (Fifty Two)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Modi wins (M J Akbar)

The pain of watching Afghanistan fall (Zarlasht Halimzai)

Karachi Vice: Life & Death in a divided city (Guernica)

How Istanbul became the Silicon Valley of mobile gaming (ROW)

The men who built Infosys (Fifty Two)

The myth of Angela Merkel (Spiked)

How Mihir Sen was targetted by Jyoti Basu (The Print)

How the US neutralized the Army of Shah of Iran (Ashkan Etemadi)

How Vipassana shaped my success story (Yuval Noah Harari)

The Moon is leaving us (Atlantic)

The lobby that wants to keep Nathuram Godse alive (Makarand Paranjape)

The iconography of Ganesha (Hindu Ascetic)

What modern India owes its Maharajahs (Manu Pillai)

The Faker (Truly Adventurous)

Travelogue: Drive to Spiti Valley (Team BHP)