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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

No pain, No gain (Cheteshwar Pujara)

Hanuma Vihari’s inspiring journey (Jayesh)

Bold India caught Australia (SMH)

KTR’s coronation as next CM of Telangana seems certain (DailyO)

Why Indian legal reform remains an after thought (Bibek Debroy)

How the most hyped US oil merger went bust (Texas Monthly)

Letter from Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

Trained to Kill (Wired)

The hunt for Felicien Kabuga (GQ)

The plight of Indian indentured labour in Mauritius in the 1800s (Scroll)

Australian pearl industry was founded on slave labour (SCMP)

Colonialism just became Capitalism (Indi Samarajiva)

Lakshadweep’s Umbrella riots (LHI)

Jauhar-Shaka: When the enemy was at the gate (Sahana Singh)

Greatest quotes of Marcus Aurelius (Brian Feroldi)