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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 )

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Aap Log Rona Band Kijiye (Pratheek Bhat)

Neeraj Chopra’s road to gold (Mint)

What the West must learn from China ( Marshall Auerback )

America’s epic Afghan failure (RT)

A journey through Turkey’s drowning landscape (Magnum)

The cruelty of Australia’s endless lockdown (Unherd)

How Chinese hackers targeted Israel (MIT Tech Review)

How Fed based digital currency can change fortune of America (Tascha)

How I used Naval’s advice to make $1 Million online (Andrew Kirby)

Who is responsible for Messi’s exit from Barcelona?(Al Jazeera)

Forgiving Jaskirat Sidhu (Macleans)

A Burning Bird (O Thiam Chin)

Adda: The secret to Bengali conviviality (BBC)

The genius of Nilakantha Somayaji (Indian History)

How old is Hindu civilization? (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Finally, an Olympic medal for hockey (Harendra Singh)

India proves critics wrong on Kashmir (National Interest)

The Diplomats without a Country (Atlantic)

US is a pyschopath that bombs poor nations ( Maitreya Bhakal)

Beirut 2020 ( Charif Majdalani)

Facebook can get Ahmadis killed in Pakistan (ROW)

Crisis in Tunisia (Madras Courier)

The Islam religion and the Jews (TOI)

The lost history of the Electric Car (Guardian)

A Soviet Prisoner’s view on what’s important (Joseph Brodsky)

The true story behind how pearls are made (Smithsonian)

Naxalite Majumdar’s meeting with Mao (HT)

The last days of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Open)

Afanasy Nikitin- Medieval Russian Traveler (LHI)

The Kapi Dhvaja (Hindu Aesthetic)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The biggest untold story about the Olympics (Gaurav Sabnis)

Why Angela Merkel has lasted so long (Spiked)

Violence may return to N Ireland (RT)

The Hundred Years War of Arab propaganda (TOI)

The Gaza ceasefire is shaky (Al Jazeera)

Mandela’s dream for South Africa in ruins (New Yorker)

The return of South Africa’s militias (Unherd)

When Denmark criminalised kindness (Granta)

The redundancy of Farmer’s agitation (Open)

Chasing Off-Kilter Friendships in Tokyo (Nat Geo)

The British shipwreck that changed the world (BBC)

Lankeshwari: The Odia Goddess from Lanka (LHI)

Sivapada in Cambodia (Hindu Aesthetic)

Murder in Whip City (Truly Adventurous)

Remembering Jagdish Raaj (Ajay Mankotia)