Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Sarkari Musalman (Najmul Hoda)

The Enemy Within ( Minhaz Merchant)

New routes to making Covid-19 in the lab (Nicholas Wade)

How liberals made the British Empire (Unherd)

How Western media built up Ayatollah Khomeini (Ashkan Etemadi)

US’s secret dealings with revolutionary Iran (RT)

The rise & ruin of couchsurfing.com (Input Mag)

Food fraud & counterfeit cotton ( Samanth Subramanian)

Shehyrar Afridi in New York (Naila Inayat)

N Premawathi: Woman tuktuk driver in Sri Lanka (ROW)

20 Practical Career Lessons (Romeen Sheth)

24 things dying people wished they had done differently (Bryant S)

Kris Ashok & Indian cooking ( Shruti Rajagopalan)

How Visvesvaraya dammed the Cauvery (Fifty Two)

In search of Akba’s wise men (LHI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An Afghan tragedy (Anatol Lieven)

The criminal incompetence of the Americans (AB)

Could Washington support Balochistan Independence? (National Interest)

Canada is a pedestrian nation (Andrew Mitrovica)

Has Covid ended the neo-liberal era? (Guardian)

Covid Crisis: India’s lost generation (LA Times)

Revolt of the Delivery Workers (Verge)

The illiberalism at Portland State University (Peter Boghossian)

The Falling Man (Esquire)

The Asteroid that shaped the fortune of snakes (BBC Science)

A family story of racism, tenure and death (Neil Verma)

The origins of Ganesha (Hindu Aesthetic)

Food: Himachali Dhaam (Vikas Navratna)

Manoj Bajpayee: The Streaming Star (Open)

Obituary: Sir Clive Sinclair (Sky)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Muslims and liberals are trapped in a toxic relationship (Najmul Hoda)

We’ve been burning for 20 years and more (M Hossein Jafarian)

How the US created a world of endless war (Guardian)

How Byjus hardsells its way to a meteoric rise (ROW)

Ambani Vs Adani (Swarajya)

The Crypto revolution has failed ( Greg Barker)

How Israel betrayed Indian Jews (LHI)

EU doesn’t want Afghan refugees (RT)

On building your Social Capital (Ahmed H)

What old money looks like in America (New Yorker)

The girl in the picture (Atavist)

The first week of ‘Intro to South Asia’ (Bihari American)

My interview with Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos (Jonwu)

The story of Bamiyan Buddhas ( Bharadwaj)

Charles Lynch and his legacy (Madras Courier)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Tetlock and the Taliban ( Richard Hanania)

The Pakistani connection (Kyle Orton)

Somalia is walking in Afghanistan’s footsteps ( Patrick Gathara)

The Dresden Job (GQ)

Lost at Sea (Boston Mag)

Why Costa Ricans live longer than Americans (Atul Gawande)

What Afghanistan taught us about Israel-Palestine (TOI)

The last Hindu of Afghanistan (Rajat Mitra)

The last Jew of Afghanistan (NY Post)

Rise & Rise of Indian Americans (American Bazaar)

Neither Partition nor Moplah massacres can be rationalised (Swarajya)

Never trust a scientist ( Stuart Ritchie)

The way of the Dokkodo ( Musashi )

A royal story of Love in Mayurbhanj, Odisha (LHI)

What makes Mammootty tick? (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Deeply moved by PM Modi’s gesture for Olympians (Kapil Dev)

Biden’s most heartless betrayal ( Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

The end of Pax Americana (Brahma Chellaney)

The fall of an American Empire (Spiked)

What I learned while eavesdropping on the Taliban (Atlantic)

How Covid-19’s origins were obscured (Bulletin)

The smooth compromise of Obama’s iconography (Guardian)

The true enemy of Islamists (Slavoj Zizek)

Stablecoins find a use in Africa’s most volatile markets (ROW)

The man who found India’s State Emblem (LHI)

Khudadad Khan: First Indian to be awarded Victoria Cross (MC)

Nikita Krushchev on early Russian impressions of India ( Russia Beyond)

How British conquered Maharashtra so swiftly (The Mahrattas)

Some ancient Indian health tips (Prema Lakshminarayan)

Poem: Home ( Warsan Shire )