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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Modi’s pandemic leadership (Open)

Imagining a different South Asia with Bangabandhu (PM Modi)

Indians brace for crypto ban (ROW)

Meet the women soldiers of Assam Rifles (IT)

There is Saffron in your Coffee House (Deep Halder)

The culture wars are getting violent (Spiked)

The Big, Stuck boat is glorious (Atlantic)

The real tamasha in Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

The American dream is dead (Indi Samarajiva)

How Beeple crashed the Art world (New Yorker)

My astrophotography hobby (Team BHP)

How cold water swimming cured my broken heart (Guardian)

The legend of Andal (LHI)

The story of Keanu Reeves (Polina)

Whatever Happened To…..? (Long Reads)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Boris Johnson: The Clown King (Guardian)

Punjab: Harvesting a protest (Siddharth Singh)

The twists and turns of Ambani bomb case (Quint)

On India’s Vaccine diplomacy (Sreemoy Talukdar)

Locating Quad in geopolitical history ( Dhruva Jaishankar)

Inside Israel’s lucrative cyber surveillance industry (ROW)

Imran Khan’s ‘ghabrana nahin’ (Naila Inayat)

A dog’s travel stories (Team BHP)

Hiking with intention ( Judi Felber)

Did Pratap Bhanu Mehta did the right thing? (Swarajya)

A creepy story from Delhi (Dilli Mirror)

A little tale from the Mahabharata (Varadraj Adya)

Remembering the Belfast Pogrom (Spiked)

Odisha’s Sambalpur: The real Shangri La (LHI)

How Kanye West became the richest black man in history (Joe Pompliano)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An East Bengal in West Bengal (Open)

The unbearable victim complex of Meghan Markle (Spiked)

On Manhattan’s private schools (Atlantic)

A thread on layoffs in the US (Laura Bassett)

How Portugal silenced centuries of violence (Al Jazeera)

How the British Empire ravaged Tibet (Anurag Shukla)

How a Cuban spy sabotaged New York’s slave trade (Smithsonian)

Decoding the Nataraja bronzes (LHI)

An ounce of gold (Joseph Zarate)

The revolting racism of Roald Dahl (Indi Samarajiva)

On the prosperity of Kozhikkode Angadi (Rajan V)

Kya Ye Sach, Ya Woh Sach ? (Varadraj Adya)

50 years of Sunny Days (Rajdeep Sardesai)

Mastering the Squat (Mint)

Best Short Film : 2+2 = 5 (You Tube)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How India got Pakistan to release IAF’s Abhinandan (HT)

Bengal’s traditions of inclusiveness are at stake (Kanchan Gupta)

The myth of China’s Great State (New Statesman)

The rich Vs the very very rich ( Samanth Subramaniam)

The rise of emotional spending (Guardian)

How did Steve Ballmer end up with 8% of Microsoft? (Trung Phan)

13 Days : The cricket documentary that never got made ( Jaideep Varma)

Don’t infect cricket please (Mohammed Kaif)

The amazing story of Prof. Indraneel Mittra ( Pramesh CS)

The roads built by Roman military shaped human civilization (Josh Wolfe)

The Bad Luck flat (Narendra Shenoy)

Memento Mori (Sahil Bloom)

Noida PG ( Shayonnita)

Bored, woke and high maintenance (Monika Halan)

Tanjore Paintings: A living legacy (LHI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How India forced China to end Pangong Tso aggression (Print)

Reimagining diplomacy in the post Covid world (S Jaishankar)

Fear of the Butcher’s knife in New Delhi (Swarajya)

Why opposition leaders are unable to erode Modi (Kartikeya Tanna)

How Socialism wiped out Venezeula’s spectacular oil wealth (Reason)

Asian Americans face a wave of violence (Vice)

How the US legalized corruption (Indi Samarajiva)

On Pak-India talks (Naila Inayat)

Rise & fall of the House of Bitcoin (ROW)

Inside the mind of Jeff Bezos (Guardian)

VCs should play bridge (Alex Danco)

Ranji Smile- America’s first celebrity chef (BI)

License No 1744 (Ramki)

12 Life Lessons from Gian-Carlo Rota (FS)

A guide to moving to Goa (MC)