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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The untold tale of armed Sukhois on 26/11 (Shiv Aroor)

On Anti-Semitism and Hate (Sacha Baron Cohen)

Can BJP do a Yediyurappa in Maharashtra? (Reuben Banerjee)

Pakistan Student Leader: Arooj Aurangzeb (Naila Inayat)

Fathima Latheef: Death on the Campus (Open)

The serial pet killer of Hong Kong (SCMP)

What it means to be French and Chinese (Guardian)

How America’s elites lost their grip (Anand Giridharadas)

Adam Sandler’s Ever Lasting Shtick (NY Times)

Drive: Meghalaya (Team BHP)

Tribute: Korea War Hero Lt. Col. Rangaraj (Op India)

Profile: Natural Icecreams’ Founder Raghunandan Kamath (Mint)

The Gara Saris of Parsis (LHI)

The Great Indian Education Con (Manu Joseph)

Why 536 was the worst year to be alive (Science Mag)

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

The Rope ( Captain Raghu Raman )

How our home delivery habit reshaped the world ( Guardian )

Shiv Sena’s last stand ( Open )

Ayodhya Verdict : Muslim Vs Muslim ( Q Faraz)

How Modi-Shah still win elections despite Anxiety Raj ( Rama Lakshmi )

How two interior designers took the fall for the Cali Cartel ( USA Today)

Tomato Crisis in Pakistan ( Naila Inayat )

Britain’s Meh Election ( Atlantic)

How Nepalese Gurkhas put down protests in Hong Kong in 1960’s ( SCMP )

Travelogue : Pushkar Camel Fair ( Team BHP )

I am Gangaram ( Telegraph )

Mithila art is having a feminist Renaissance ( Atlas Obscura )

Is reading over rated ? ( Manu Joseph )

Arwi – The Arab- Tamil language ( Madras Courier )

Vindaloo : The Curry of the Lads ( LHI )

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

On India’s Foreign Policy (S Jaishankar)

The Spirit of New India (Swapan Dasgupta)

Ram’s Ghar Wapsi (Makarand Paranjape)

A Chariot in history (Kanchan Gupta)

Maharashtra: The Politricks of Alliance (Outlook)

The case against Boeing (New Yorker)

A mosque celebrating a Hindu King (Manu Pillai)

Israel is guilty (Shahar Azani)

The silent plight of Sindh’s Hindu girls (Dawn)

On Hindu Pashtuns (Better India)

How Immigration became Britain’s most toxic issue (Guardian)

The Indians who built New Delhi (LHI)

The Mughal Princess venerated as a Mexican Saint (Madras Courier)

Photos: Venice Underwater (Atlantic)

Bangladesh Diary (Shashi Tharoor)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Big Tech is dragging us to the next financial crash (Rana Foorohar)

An inheritance of smog (Siddharth Singh)

On the third anniversary of demonetization (S Gurumurthy)

Kartarpur & Khalistan (Seshadri Chari)

Kashmiris & Indian Muslims (Jawed Naqvi)

Why India was right not to join RCEP (Makarand Paranjape)

Shiv Sena’s all or nothing gamble (Outlook)

A Nation Wide Scam on Airbnb (Vice)

Screen Time: How much is too much? (SCMP)

The Rabbi’s son who became a Swami (Times of Israel)

Why is the Govt sending me to exile? (Aatish Taseer)

Travelogue: Beach Drive Puri (Team BHP)

Mystery Mail (J Mathrubootham)

The Khan Sahib of Madura (Madras Courier)

Fun & Games in Old Calcutta (LHI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The rot in JNU (Makarand Paranjpe)

On the Ayodhya case (Seshadri Chari)

The power of unconditional hospitality (Priya Basil)

What Riyaaz Amlani wants you to know about whisky (Mint)

Lebanon doesn’t need heros (Fadlo Khuri)

Impeachment comes for Trump (New Yorker)

Bullet-Proof Cars: All you need to know (Team BHP)

All roads lead to Rishikesh (Nat Geo)

On new Technologies (J Mathrubootham)

Fiction: To the Dogs (Jianan Qian)

On Rajatarangini (Madras Courier)

The Zoji La battle of 1948 (Print)

Travelogue: South India Bike Odyssey (Dr Vijay Malik)

Madame Tussaud’s early Indian connection (LHI)

The word that encapsulates Frenchness (BBC Travel)