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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why there is no stopping the BJP in India (Makarand Paranjape)

The battle of the Parsis (Pritish Nandy)

Story behind my first shitty co (Justin Kan)

Anti-minority propaganda in Pakistan (BBC)

Whatever happened to Cool Britannia? (Andrew Dickens)

Ramshastri Prabhune: Iron Man of Peshwa judiciary (PM)

General Thimayya Vs Pratap Singh Kairon (OpEd)

How the 1896 Bombay Plague changed Mumbai (Atlas Obscura)

Was Bradman really bowled a googly in his last knock? (M R Sharan)

The latter day racism of Charles Allen (Sanjeev Sanyal)

Please give him one more chance (Rajan Venkateswaran)

Is it really worth buying a car in Mumbai in 2021? (RoM)

Cold blooded encounter with snakes (Shashank Gupta)

The dognapping of the Century (Truly Adventurous)

Street musicians in Hindi Film music (Ajay Mankotia)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Bill Hwang lost $ 20 Billion in 2 days (Business Week)

The strange peer pressure to start a startup (Manu Joseph)

The New Establishment (Sanjay Baru)

Mumbai is a cash cow for Maha Vasooli Aghadi (FPJ)

The genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh (Tulsi Gabbard)

Understanding the Arab response to Bangladesh war (Dhaka Tribune)

The Havana Job (Truly Adventurous)

I called off my wedding. The Internet will never forget (Wired)

The racism racket (Joanna Williams)

When the Sri Harmandir Sahib disappeared (LHI)

Bahadur Shah Zafar : The last great traitor (DD)

On Friendship (Atlantic)

On Pune’s iconic Chitale Bandhu (BI)

Kalimullah Khan – The Mango Man of India (Atlas Obscura)

What a tiny masterpiece reveals about truth & beauty (NY Times)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The palpable shift in Assam politics (Ruhi Tewari)

The Ashoka imbroglio ( Makarand Paranjape)

Exodus from Lebanon (Guernica)

Hands off Taiwan ! (Spiked)

Has India become China’s colony? (Print)

How Bellingcat unmasked Putin’s assasins (New Yorker)

The case for an Israeli Suez Canal alternative (TOI)

150 years of Anti-Asian racism (Buzz Feed)

Death of a truly good salesman (Truly Adventurous)

Walmart’s Company town of Bentonville, Arkansas (Jacobin)

India & Tibet (LHI)

Passports are some colonial bullshit (Indi Samarajiva)

Prabhas Power (Open)

Athellam Venda ( Rajan Venkateswaran)

The end of Ghashiram Kotwal (Pune Mirror)

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)