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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What Yogi did right (Open)

Why did India open a backchannel to the Taliban? (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s games in Afghanistan (Seema Sirohi)

The toppling of Saddam’s statue (Guardian)

America’s empires always fail (Unherd)

The assasination of Haiti President (RT)

How migrant caravans are organized (RoW)

India’s first Arab Governor (LHI)

The star ingredient in Cambodian food (BBC Travel)

Angampora: Sri Lankan Martial Art (Atlas Obscura)

How profits from Opium shaped 19th Century Boston (Wbur)

The Jatinga bird mystery (Madras Courier)

The 1904 Olympic marathon (Smithsonian)

Confucian Parenting advice (Indi Samarajiva)

Obituary: Dilip Kumar (Jai Arjun Singh)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Lazarus heist (BBC)

Can we survive extreme heat? (Rolling Stone)

Xi’s message to the West (RT)

East Jerusalem is at a boiling point (TOI)

Kashmir: The road from Gupkar (Rahul Pandita)

Water revolution in Rudraprayag (BI)

Laurel & Hardy: Kings of Comedy (Madras Courier)

The long history of ‘Bombay Time’ (Atlas Obscura)

What British rule really did for India (Amartya Sen)

Operation Barbarossa ( Spiked)

Biju Patnaik: Lord of the Skies (LHI)

My grandfather, the Zionist (NY Mag)

Memories of a Honduran coup (Al Jazeera)

In a world without Sushi ( Juhea Kim)

In photos: Golden cape made from silk of a million spiders (Guardian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The revolt against liberalism (Guardian)

The tyranny of Woke Capitalism ( Spiked)

The Sangh and Modernity (Ram Madhav)

Beijing’s useful idiots (UnHerd)

Iran at a crossroads (Marwan Bishara)

I am afraid to be Jewish in France ( Toni Kamins)

Clash of the Islanders ( Toronto Life)

The legend of the ‘Serpent Mosque’ (LHI)

The Himalayan peak off limts to climbers (BBC)

Why does Jerry Seinfeld still work hard? (Inc)

How Udupi spread its vegetarian cuisine across the world (SCMP)

Edward Dyer, His Beer & Whiskey (Madras Courier)

Udaybhan Rathore & myth making in Maratha History (EngrWho)

The thriving business of ‘IKEA hacking’ (Hustle)

The Zero stones of Pune & London (Syndrome)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I was taught to protect my dynastic wealth ( Abigail Disney)

How I became the Honest Broker (Ted Gioia)

UK: Labour Party’s woes have deepened (Spiked)

Nigeria: Koo is selling itself as a Twitter substitute (ROW)

Israel: My friend is now the PM (TOI)

The rise & fall of Planet Hollywood (Esquire)

The story of Resuscitation Anne (Umme Faisal)

How the British betrayed Palestinians ( Al Jazeera)

Goa Revolution Day (LHI)

A Nawab named Safdar Jung ( Syndrome)

Zoya Lobo: India’s first transgender photojournalist (BI)

Granddaughter of the Octopus ( Remy Ngamije)

Shock Therapy ( Ania Spyra )

Shaming the Fat Shamers ( Preeti Zachariah)

The surprising origin of Sushi (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

China could pay if virus leaked from its Lab (WaPo)

Decoding the BJP’s meltdown in Bengal ( Sandip Ghose)

Israel’s political striptease show (TOI)

What happens when a Hindu temple is destroyed (Dharma Dispatch)

The Indian Ocean world in 5 lives (LHI)

The truth about Aurangzeb (Open)

The difference between Woke & Cultural Awakening (RT)

How Apple used Pablo Picasso’s Bull (Trung Phan)

Pune, Shanghai, and a man named Victor ( Syndrome)

On vintage cookbooks (HT)

12 Levels of Friendship in Arabic ( Taariq Ismail )

Using Advanced Search on Twitter (Dickie Bush)

The Han twins (Truly Adventurous)

Silence of the jackals (Shashank Gupta)

Stories of my travels (SyncNest)