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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)

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)