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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

My life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes ( Simukai Chigudu)

What white privilege steals from us (Indi Samarajiva)

Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries ? (Karma Colonialism)

The man who turned Credit Card points into an Empire (NY Times)

The market value of my father (Wealth Simple)

What Indian car did you have a crush on? (Team BHP)

I am a victim of a serious phishing attack (Nidhi Razdan)

The story of Aswathi Hot Chips (Better India)

River rafting in Arunachal Pradesh (Nat Geo)

The second career of Michael Riegels (Granta)

Shareef ( Mahreen Sohail)

How Austrian Kings Joseph I & Charles VI decided the fate of India & America (The Kaipullai)

Remembering Mahendra Kapoor ( Ajay Mankotia)

The story of Indian Coffee (LHI)

Why Germans love getting naked in public (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The last 10 Minutes (Yuval Cherlow)

The new architecture of a New India (Sanjeev Sanyal)

The world shook as America raged (New Yorker)

The EU, CAI and the abyss (ORF)

How Kani brothers terrorised a Libyan town (BBC)

What my grandfather’s life taught me about China and America (Vincent Li)

Facebook is a doomsday machine (Atlantic)

Subaltern Hindutva (Abhinav Prakash)

The six husbands every wife should have (Rajiv Mehta)

The musical genius of Late M D Ramanathan (RV)

CIA declassified files of the 1971 war (Vikas)

Jaichand was no traitor (Only Dharma)

Joining Apple 40 years ago (Jean Louis Gassee)

The trouble with Optionality (Mihir Desai)

How Goa’s holiday homes have weathered the pandemic (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend :

Inside India’s booming dark data economy ( RestOfWorld )

The truth behind Indian American exceptionalism ( Atlantic )

Hindu Phobia in the Academy ( India Currents )

Woke-Lash ( Newsweek )

The importance of Himanta Biswa Sarma (Ruhi Tewari)

India has forced a stalemate in Ladakh (Lt. Gen. Panag )

How neutering became the norm ( Moose Nuggets )

Judge Saheb ka Kutta ( Manushi )

The problems of running a business in India ( Shravan Venkataraman)

Why cricket lovers love Channel 9 ( Abhishek Mukherjee )

My friend told her son that Santa isn’t real ( Long View )

Texas wedding photographers have seen some S#!+ ( Texas Monthly )

Takshashila : The World’s Oldest University ( Raghu )

On Athangudi Tiles ( Deepti )

Why we should learn German ( John Le Carre )