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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I was taught to protect my dynastic wealth ( Abigail Disney)

How I became the Honest Broker (Ted Gioia)

UK: Labour Party’s woes have deepened (Spiked)

Nigeria: Koo is selling itself as a Twitter substitute (ROW)

Israel: My friend is now the PM (TOI)

The rise & fall of Planet Hollywood (Esquire)

The story of Resuscitation Anne (Umme Faisal)

How the British betrayed Palestinians ( Al Jazeera)

Goa Revolution Day (LHI)

A Nawab named Safdar Jung ( Syndrome)

Zoya Lobo: India’s first transgender photojournalist (BI)

Granddaughter of the Octopus ( Remy Ngamije)

Shock Therapy ( Ania Spyra )

Shaming the Fat Shamers ( Preeti Zachariah)

The surprising origin of Sushi (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China could pay if virus leaked from its Lab (WaPo)

Decoding the BJP’s meltdown in Bengal ( Sandip Ghose)

Israel’s political striptease show (TOI)

What happens when a Hindu temple is destroyed (Dharma Dispatch)

The Indian Ocean world in 5 lives (LHI)

The truth about Aurangzeb (Open)

The difference between Woke & Cultural Awakening (RT)

How Apple used Pablo Picasso’s Bull (Trung Phan)

Pune, Shanghai, and a man named Victor ( Syndrome)

On vintage cookbooks (HT)

12 Levels of Friendship in Arabic ( Taariq Ismail )

Using Advanced Search on Twitter (Dickie Bush)

The Han twins (Truly Adventurous)

Silence of the jackals (Shashank Gupta)

Stories of my travels (SyncNest)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How an Amateur sleuth from West Bengal broke the Wuhan Lab story (Newsweek)

State Vs Social Media (Abhijit Iyer Mitra)

Modi’s year of reckoning (Minhaz Merchant)

Naftali Bennett: Israel’s PM-in-waiting (Guardian)

How America is becoming Nazi Germany (Indi Samarajiva)

America has a drinking problem (Atlantic)

Rise of the killer robot drone (RT)

Robo-chef, meet Dosa (ROW)

The Chitale Brothers: A savoury story (Mint)

Travelogue: Megalaya (TeamBHP)

The bloody invasion of Sindh (Savitri Mumukshu)

Ahilyabai Holkar: The greatest Queen of India (Bharadwaj)

Malliga Homes (Sindya Bhanoo)

The richest black girl in America (Truly Adventurous)

Why every single statue should come down (Guardian)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

In search of the real Savarkar (Vikram Sampath)

The Missing Magritte (Vanity Fair)

How Britain betrayed Chinese seamen (Guardian)

How the US triggered a massacre in Mexico (Pro Publica)

The Ethiopian Marathon Men who can’t go home (GQ)

Marbella: The United Nations of Crime (Guardian)

Rio de Janeiro’s endless cycle of violence (Al Jazeera)

I’m Fed Up of people demonizing Israel (Blake Ezra)

Breast or Tooth? (Tishani Doshi)

Found in Situ (Guernica)

Mughal Emperors & the Imperial Hunt (LHI)

Gunbir Singh & his efforts for organic farming (BI)

The woman who walked the world (BBC Travel)

The man who sold millions in counterfeit wine (Hustle)

When misinformation comes for the family WhatsApp (Meghna Rao)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Did China get away with creating a Pandemic? (Brahma Chellaney)

The Palestinian Tragedy (Spiked)

Why Israel lost this war (TOI)

Why Netanyahu thinks America is stupid ( Marwan Bishara)

A Jewish case for Palestinian refugee return (Guardian)

Pakistan Parliamentarians want to nuke Israel ( Naila Inayat)

The plight of Pakistani fishermen ( Baffler)

The strange story of Dagobert (New Yorker)

The Western Media Double-Standard (Project Syndicate)

The Mob & the Crowd (Granta)

Rideshare Apps are a lifeline for Indian women (ROW)

Trekking: Kashmir Great Lakes ( Team BHP)

Aligarh’s French Connection (LHI)

The rags to riches story of Hyundai Founder (Chris Hladczuk)

Bill Gates will never be the same ( Vox)