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Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Martine Rothblatt’s life of moonshots ( PHD )

The curse of Lithium ( Guardian )

The smoking gun in Facebook Antitrust case ( Wired )

The nuclear family was a mistake ( David Brooks )

What my Dad gave his shop ( Atlantic)

Uber ruined lives in Kenya ( NBC )

Pakistan cheers Khalistan ( Naila Inayat )

Jerry Seinfeld’s methods for success ( Tim Ferris Show )

How Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated ( DailyO )

Violence is coming to America ( Indi Samarajiva )

Havelock Road becomes Guru Nanak Road in London ( MC )

India’s Counterfeit Elite ( Minhaz Merchant )

The ambiguous heroism of the fabled Indian farmer ( Manu Joseph )

Spoof : I am immortal ( The Onion )

Remembering Rao Bahadur Yeshwantrao Desai ( LHI )

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Rajnikanth enters TN politics ( IE )

What are the farmer protests all about? ( Anurag Singh )

Anand Patwardhan has a warning ( NY Times)

The Nazi inspiring China’s Communists ( Atlantic)

How COBOL controls your money ( WS)

The story of Vicco ( Mint )

The two sides of Diego Maradona ( Ringer )

How my mind was colonized ( Indi Samarajiva )

The story of Pakistan’s women cricket ( Cricket Monthly )

Revisiting Hitler’s final days in the Bunker ( New Yorker )

Have you ever spotted your ex-car? ( Team BHP)

The Jauhar of Jaisalmer ( Shalini Singh )

Odisha’s Bali Yatra ( LHI )

The magic of Farida Khanum ( DailyO)

Yogendra Yadav is the Kim Kardashian of India ( Arnab Ray)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How BJP has emerged as a major force in Bihar ( Aroon Purie )

Advantage : Adityanath ( Open )

Who won the war over Nagorno-Karabakh? (The Hindu )

How Xi Jinping blew it ( Atlantic )

In China, sports and politics are inseparable( SCMP )

How Western travel bloggers got entangled in Pakistan’s politics ( Guardian )

‘Save Christmas’ campaign in the UK ( RT )

Remembering Nuremberg ( Al Jazeera)

Milk ( Sukhada Tatke )

On Pandemic Fatigue ( Indi Samarajiva )

Missouri calling Madras ( J Mathrubootham)

Spoof : Monk under waterfall (The Onion )

Chhath Puja : Ancient origins ( LHI)

Italy’s beloved ‘fried pizza’ ( BBC Travel )

Obituary : Soumitra Chatterjee ( Telegraph )

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The rest of the world had it with US Presidents (Mohammed Hanif)

Why Trump can’t afford to lose (New Yorker)

Even if Biden wins, its Trump’s America (Time)

Modi’s league of economic reformers (Dhiraj Nayyar)

The assault on Arnab (Open)

Pakistani Women are ruling memes (Naila Inayat)

How White Russians caused a dance revolution in China (SCMP)

Why a renowned humanitarian took his own life (Guardian)

The true story of Bloody Mary (ATI)

Stranger than fiction (Atavist)

Why PDF is the world’s most important file format (Vice)

On the 1947 war in Kashmir (ADG-PI)

Tit for Tat (J Mathrubootham)

Umaid Bhavan: The last Grand Palace (LHI)

Rohtang Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Whites supressed voting rights of Blacks in America (Jawad Mian)

How Trump can win again (Atlantic)

Macron’s War against Radical Islam (Open)

How RBI got rid of Yes Bank’s Rana Kapoor (Tamal Bandyopadhyay)

My fight against Triple Talaq (Aafreen Rehman)

The hidden story of Mewat (True Indology)

The Brothel trade of Bengal (National Geographic)

Misremembering the British Empire (New Yorker)

China & Sri Lanka (Indi Samarajiva)

How Navratri and Dussehra were celebrated in medieval India (OD)

TedX talk: The Cost of Success (Pratik Gandhi)

Remembering Manna Dey (Ajay Mankotia)

The most expensive Rupee (LHI)

How Snakes & Ladders became a global phenomenon (Madras Courier)

Dosa: India’s obsession (BBC Travel)