Tag: megalinkfest

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The $38 Trillion Question (IM1776)

Battle for the Petro Dollar (Niti Shastra)

The fall of ‘rules based’ order (Spiked)

The UN is dead (Al Majalla)

Venezuela is America’s Suez moment (ForPol)

USA Vs Latin America (Engelsberg)

Europe wants to talk to Russia (RT)

Uprising in Iran (MEM)

Schrodinger’s Jihadists (New Lines)

Thread: What contemporaries thought of Marathas (PS)

Ayo Gurkhali (Hill Post)

Makar Sankranti across India (KBS Sidhu)

Satire: Living in Europe is Paradise (MS)

Thread: Cultures of Colombia (HN)

Road Trip: Northeast India (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Somnath Swabhiman Parv (Narendra Modi)

How Sathya Sai Baba became a household name in Venezuela (RNS)

Anatomy of the Global Disorder (Niti Shastra)

The American Blitzkrieg on Venezuela (RT)

The US has gone full Villain (Walrus)

3 Takeaways of US seizure of Russian tanker (Krobyko)

Trump’s plans for Greenland (AP)

Protests intensify in Iran (JPost)

The roots of Iran’s economic crisis (Engelsberg)

Strategic illusions of Pakistan (FP)

Africa must fragment (TOI)

We still live in a Fast Food Nation (Guardian)

Thread: How to negotiate any price down (CT)

What life mistake taught you the hardest lesson? (Reddit)

Train Ride across Canada (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Bangladesh’s descent into Jihad (Organiser)

5 Elections in 2026 (Print)

No political leadership in Punjab (KBS Sidhu)

Islam is incompatible with democracy (Print)

2026 New Year Message (Xi Jinping)

China View: US-India relations (Sinification)

Somaliland: A Detailed Explainer (TOI)

Discontent in Iran (MEM)

Saudi Arabia Vs UAE (FP)

US Security Guarantees to Ukraine (RAND)

France is becoming used to gratuitous violence (Spectator)

An Elegy to Oxford Street (Spiked)

Mahatam Gandhi was a fraud (Sanjay Dixit)

Nelson Mandela was a communist terrorist (AT)

Bhajan Clubbing (ForPol)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How CIA provoked 1962 India-China war (Strat News)

The Arctic is India’s third energy front (RT)

Why Nitin Nabin was chosen as BJP President (Print)

Indian response to Bangladesh should be containment (ForPol)

China’s Trade Ultimatum to Canada (Walrus)

Annexation is collective suicide for Israel (TOI)

Genocide of Christians in Syria (Cradle)

The Christian Missionary who shaped Dravidian Identity (Organiser)

A Hotel’s Complimentary Breakfast (Vikram C)

India will get the Villain it deserves (Vivan Vatsa)

Thread: The Fall of Zimbabwe Cricket (Vipin T)

Trade chokepoints decide history (Op India)

Iron Maiden at 50 (Spectator)

Thread: Name one idea that changed your life (Trung Phan)

The oldest restaurant in the world (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Bondi Shooting (FP)

Unrest in Bangladesh (TOI)

The India-Ethiopia Partnership (Korybko)

The Over Production of Indian elites (For Pol)

Europe doesn’t want peace (WSJ)

Iran’s new moral order (Foreign Policy)

The 1975 coup in Bangladesh (GC)

Gaddafi nostalgia (MEM)

The Greek connection to Hanukkah (Homer Pavlos)

Global intifada against Jews (JPost)

The Imran Khan stalemate (Tribune)

2025 was the year of Trump family cashing in (New Yorker)

How Mysore decided the Current Years (Shree Itihaas)

55 Lessons from a 55-Year-Old (Kevin Dahlstrom)

Photos: Japan (Smithsonian)