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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What Yogi did right (Open)

Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban? (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s games in Afghanistan (Seema Sirohi)

The toppling of Saddam’s statue (Guardian)

America’s empires always fail (Unherd)

The assasination of Haiti President (RT)

How migrant caravans are organized (RoW)

India’s first Arab Governor (LHI)

The star ingredient in Cambodian food (BBC Travel)

Angampora: Sri Lankan Martial Art (Atlas Obscura)

How profits from Opium shaped 19th Century Boston (Wbur)

The Jatinga bird mystery (Madras Courier)

The 1904 Olympic marathon (Smithsonian)

Confucian Parenting advice (Indi Samarajiva)

Obituary: Dilip Kumar (Jai Arjun Singh)