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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 20 June, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Hindus & Jews face common existential threat (Organiser)

Inside Mossad’s Operation Narnia (JPost)

The Persian Leopard & the Rising Lion (TOI)

The end of Israeli exceptionalism (RT)

Thread: Rampant corruption in Iran (ChrisO)

Arakan Army & the Rohingyas (Arab News)

5 Years since Galwan (First Post)

Theodore Roosevelt’s lessons in global power (Engelsberg)

Thread: Ganesh Savarkar (Ratnakar)

The Man who invented the Modern Zoo (Smithsonian)

Thread: The Crimean War (Rina Lu)

Traffic Jams in Himachal (Hill Post)

Thread: Nationalization of Banks Scam (Monidipa Bose)

Relationship of Arabs & Persians with Islam (Dan Burmawi)

Thread: Genocide of Kashmiri Hindus (Right Singh)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 13 June, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

When AI 171 crashed into the hostel mess (Scroll)

10 Q&A about Israel’s attack on Iran (Tehran Times)

How Israel misled Iran before the strike (JPost)

Russia’s new enemy #1 is Germany (RT)

Russian mercenaries remain active in Africa (RAND)

Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb (ORF)

Bosnia in Deadlock (Crisis)

Who counts as an Afrikaner? (New Lines)

Why Tunisia has become a retirement haven for Italians (Al Majalla)

How Pakistan fell in love with Sushi (Guardian)

The National War Memorial of New Delhi (Hill Post)

The Redundant Gandhi (Open)

A tribute to Raj Kapoor (Jai Arjun)

Travelogue: Laos (BBC Travel)

Book Review: The hard thing about hard things (PSmith)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 06 June, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s new iconoclausts (Engelsberg)

‘Khalistan Zindabad’ slogans raised at Golden Temple (Op India)

Why China is not interested in Great Power carve ups (Diplomat)

Beijing’s close ties with Islamabad (RT)

Pakistani Military is like cancer (First Post)

Where have all the Jews gone? (Spiked)

Egypt’s rapprochement with Iran (Arab News)

South Korea’s ongoing political crisis (Jacobin)

Midlife with no kids and no crisis (Guardian)

Elon Musk is a disgusting Abomination (Paul Krugman)

Why Woke failed (Persuasion)

India’s role in African slave trade (Wire)

The Patron Saint of Sound Money (DR)

The Bittersweet Beginnings of Vanilla (Smithsonian)

Fort: Raigad Fort (Open)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 30 May, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Interview with RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr. Mohan Bhagwat (Organiser)

India needs a Veer Savarkar (Goa Chronicle)

The last chapter of Naxalite insurgency (Open)

America is a loser of Operation Sindoor (First Post)

The US-Japan Alliance (Engelsberg)

How to start a war with Russia (RT)

Sergei Lavrov: Russia’s longest serving diplomat (Al Majalla)

Thread: Pakistan-Turkey alliance (DisInfo Lab)

Kabul back in focus (Cradle)

Second Class Citizenship of Palestinian Israelis (Jacobin)

The untold story of 9/11’s Architect (TOI)

The curse of Toumai (Guardian)

Fiction: The Ex (Dilli Mirror)

The Turkish genocide of Christians (Dan Burmawi)

Metric-Less Success (Lawrence Yeo)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 24 May, 2025

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Amit Shah crushed Naxalism (GC)

The Fifth Column (Open)

China’s military falters ( ORF )

Trump’s China Policy (American Prospect)

Inequity in Pakistan ( Tribune )

The PKK’s decision to disband ( Crisis)

Israel can make Trillion of $ in Applied AI (TOI)

Israeli society is splitting into two (JPost)

A 55 year old conversation has scandalised the Arab world (NL)

Stalin returns to Moscow (RT)

The Slavic War according to Stalin ( Engelsberg)

Pirates of the Ayahuasca ( N+1 )

The return to Kailash (ORCA)

Thread: The seige of Leningrad (Rina Lu)

Malcolm X at 100 ( Spiked )