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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

In search of the real Savarkar (Vikram Sampath)

The Missing Magritte (Vanity Fair)

How Britain betrayed Chinese seamen (Guardian)

How the US triggered a massacre in Mexico (Pro Publica)

The Ethiopian Marathon Men who can’t go home (GQ)

Marbella: The United Nations of Crime (Guardian)

Rio de Janeiro’s endless cycle of violence (Al Jazeera)

I’m Fed Up of people demonizing Israel (Blake Ezra)

Breast or Tooth? (Tishani Doshi)

Found in Situ (Guernica)

Mughal Emperors & the Imperial Hunt (LHI)

Gunbir Singh & his efforts for organic farming (BI)

The woman who walked the world (BBC Travel)

The man who sold millions in counterfeit wine (Hustle)

When misinformation comes for the family WhatsApp (Meghna Rao)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Did China get away with creating a Pandemic? (Brahma Chellaney)

The Palestinian Tragedy (Spiked)

Why Israel lost this war (TOI)

Why Netanyahu thinks America is stupid ( Marwan Bishara)

A Jewish case for Palestinian refugee return (Guardian)

Pakistan Parliamentarians want to nuke Israel ( Naila Inayat)

The plight of Pakistani fishermen ( Baffler)

The strange story of Dagobert (New Yorker)

The Western Media Double-Standard (Project Syndicate)

The Mob & the Crowd (Granta)

Rideshare Apps are a lifeline for Indian women (ROW)

Trekking: Kashmir Great Lakes ( Team BHP)

Aligarh’s French Connection (LHI)

The rags to riches story of Hyundai Founder (Chris Hladczuk)

Bill Gates will never be the same ( Vox)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India- The Republic of Sorrow (M J Akbar)

Massive under-reporting of deaths in Gujarat ( Deepak Patel)

The origin of Covid ( The Bulletin)

Hamas & Netanyahu are gambling dangerously (New Yorker)

The Arab Street is quiet (TOI)

Break the Fear barrier and speak for Palestine ( Al Jazeera)

Racism increases in Germany ( RT)

Why Lebanese are giving up their pets ( Mint)

The plan to kill Osama Bin Laden ( Politico)

The economics of movie-product placements (The Hustle)

Why Millenials can’t grow up (Atlantic)

Understanding Car Air-Conditioners (Team BHP)

Cairo’s haunted ‘Temple-Palace’ (LHI)

Remembering Naushad ( Ajay Mankotia)

How to tell if you are from a middle-class Indian household (Shashank)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The day of the final game is coming ( M J Akbar)

Victims of TMC’s post poll violence speak up (Op India)

Northern Ireland at 100 (Spiked)

Australia-China Kinetic War (RT)

How Indian Jews are coping with the pandemic (TOI)

India’s empathy-deficit disorder (Mint)

How Jeff Bezos beat the tabloids (Bloomberg)

Redoine Faid: World’s greatest jailbreak artist ( GQ)

Why I don’t want to raise independent children (Indi Samarajiva)

How adult children affect their mother’s happiness (Atlantic)

Russia’s “Eighth Wonder of the World” (BBC)

1909: The English murder of a Hindoo native ( Vishal Ganesan)

Ho Chi Bear & the Ravens ( Truly Adventurous)

Why vaccines are injected in your upper arm muscle (ABC)

New Ideas (Paul Graham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dr. Rajendra Bharud, the IAS officer who saved Nandurbar (Better India)

The sacrifice of Narayan Dabhadkar (Shefali Vaidya)

Bill Gates is a vaccine racist (Indi Samarajiva)

The last days of Satoshi (Bitcoin Mag)

What is Western Art doing in Tehran? (Al Jazeera)

The secret spies keeping Baghdad safe (Guernica)

Pakistan: The land without small mercies (Mehr Tarar)

The everyday racism of offshore call centers (ROW)

Danger to Jews from Christian missionaries (TOI)

Crime: Family Business (Truly Adventurous)

Bengaluru: A Phoneix that rose from the plague ( LHI)

Battle of Pawankhind ( Varadraj Adya )

Amitabh Bachchan’s car collection (Team BHP)

The Secretary who turned liquid paper into a multi-million $ business (Hustle)

Satyajit Ray: From genius to divinity (M J Akbar)