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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Intelligence Coup of the Century (Washington Post)

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime (Huff Post)

Who is Rishi Sunak? (FT)

Did Japan offer $ 100 Million to Portugal for Macau? (SCMP)

From Egypt to Exodus (Yoni Leviatan)

AAP’s return (Swapan Dasgupta)

Why RSS is smiling at Kejriwal’s win (India Today)

Did Nehru not want Patel in the Cabinet? (Swarajya)

Inside an Indian internment camp (Mint)

The plight of the Tibetans (DailyO)

Mumbai’s Esplanade Mansion (Nat Geo)

Who likes Spartacus? (J Mathrubootham)

A house for Mr. Azad (Abdul Kalam Azad)

A peek into the Peshwa Court (LHI)

Does happiness in your 50s signal the end of ambition? (WaPo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Cornavirus tests China (Time)

All you wanted to know about the Bodoland Accord (Guwahati Times)

How McKinsey destroyed the Middle Class (Atlantic)

How Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan (SCMP)

History: The Battle of Diu (IWTK)

The uneasy birth of India’s Constitution (Tripurdaman Singh)

I used ransomware to sabotage my boss (Bloomberg)

As Amma lay dying (Vaasanthi)

The Bhujia King (Mint)

Kashmir Day in Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

Agra: Beyond the Taj (LHI)

Video: The Empty Streets of Wuhan (ATimes)

Shikara: The struggle against forgetting (Rahul Pandita)

My life goes up and down like Stock Market (J Mathrubootham)

China Diary (Vaswati Dasgupta)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

IBM & IIT Kanpur (Print)

Why Trump’s plan for Palestine will not work (Guardian)

Brexit: Sadness & Relief (BBC)

The secret history of the 9/11 investigation (Pro Publica)

Uighur Muslims in China (NY Times)

The Woman shaking up the diamond industry (New Yorker)

Google’s Quest for Quantum Supremacy (Wired)

The making of a Maasai safari guide (SCMP)

History: Bakhtiyar Khilji’s disastrous expedition (LHI)

The 1948 anti-Brahmin Riots (True Indology)

The 10 worst Indian cars of the last decade (Team BHP)

Pizza Maavu (J Mathrubootham)

We need to talk (Guernica)

The true history behind the ‘1917’ movie (Smithsonian)

Newer Delhi (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

A story about a Hindu Bengali refugee (Arunudoy)

Hindutva is Hinduism that resists (DNA)

Why foes of BJP may be right this time (Manu Joseph)

The Big Scandal of Indology (Subhash Kak)

Your life is driven by Network Effects (James Currier)

How fitness app Stava became a religion (Guardian)

The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train (Japan Times)

The Middle Eastern problem Soleimani figured out (Hassan Hassan)

What does Mohammed Bin Zayed want? (NY Times)

Confessions of Tipu Sultan (My India)

Ayub the first (Dawn)

Conversation with Mohammed Hanif (SCMP)

The Commissioner who left Bombay bankrupt (Mid Day)

19th Century American Slave Sale & Auction Ads (Mind Circle)

The Indian Food Thali (Vandana Jayrajan)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Muslim Rage (Open)

Why JNU is a target for the Govt (Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay)

Shut down JNU (Media Crooks)

Trump has made us all stupid (NY Times)

How the US knew Iranian missiles were coming (Wired)

How Israel views Trump’s strike against Iran (New Yorker)

A Scandal in Oxford (Guardian)

How the US created El Salvador’s bloody gang wars (Guardian)

Royal Hypocrites (Atlantic)

The incredibly happy life of Larry David (GQ)

The Ramayana: A Tibetan retelling (LHI)

The oldest person in the world turns 117 (Smithsonian)

From Hawker to Hacker (The Youth)

The unmaking of India’s fountain pens (Bibek Debroy)

Obituary: Akbar Padamsee (Mint)