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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)

Some offbeat reads for the weekend:

The secret history of the Tata, Mistry, Wadia feud ( Coomi Kapoor)

Why the Dalai Lama deserves the Bharat Ratna (Tsewang Rigzin)

Afghanistan: Peace of the Graveyard (M J Akbar)

Why the Canadian Left is burning down churches (Unherd)

A famine in Madagascar (Al Jazeera)

Delivery apps are killing Singapore’s food stalls (RoW)

Whats it like to be a refugee in Britain (Guardian)

Israel in meltdown over Ben & Jerrys ice cream (RT)

How Israelis & Gazans got jailed in Bulgaria (TOI)

Tiki Girl (Amanda Lee Koe)

Thread: Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Ratnakar Sadasyula)

The third attack on Pearl Harbor (ButWhatFor)

The legend of Manasa Devi (Hindu Aesthetic)

The tragic story of India’s greatest spy (MC)

5 acts of kindness of Robin Williams (Goodable)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Uyghur Chronicles (Atlantic)

Cuba: The invisible boot (Antonio Garcia Martinez)

I wish I didn’t live in Durban (Paddy Harper)

Erik Prince’s $ 10 Billion private army in Ukraine ( Time)

How China censors video games (Guardian)

President Kamala would destroy America (Unherd)

Bollywood: Sunset on Khan Market ( Kaveree Bamzai )

Sonu Sood: Hero or Villain? (Hawk Eye)

The last King of Burma (Ahana Bag)

The epic battle of Pavan Khind (Historify Today)

A peek into Panaji’s history (Mint)

The horrific history of the English word ‘juggernaut’ (Savitri Mumukshu)

The Clairvoyant (Truly Adventurous)

Vaishali Shadangule: First Indian woman at Paris Couture Week (BI)

Which oils are used for frying Indian Namkeens? (Swetha Sivakumar)