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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India & Pakistan & China (Strategy Page)

Why did the wealthy Ibrahim brothers become suicide bombers? (NYTimes)

Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s Uighur concentration camps? (Guardian)

Pakistanis are saying ‘Mandir Nahin Banayenge’ (Naila Inayat)

Times Internet: A disaster story (Medium)

Upcoming Expressways in India (Team BHP)

Why Pakistan’s Shan masalas have a cult following in India (Mint)

Jyoti Basu: The mass murderer India forgot (Op India)

Vikas Dubey: A Ganglord Saga (Open)

Profile: Hayavadan Rao (Sheshapatangi)

Nikola Tesla & Swami Vivekananda (Tesla Society)

The Rama Story and Sanskrit in ancient Xinjiang (Medium)

The Nawab of Arcot & his debts (W&S)

Ustad Mansur: A Wonder of his age (LHI)

The story of Goa’s Vanarmare tribe (Rosemary Marandi)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lovely & Dark in fairness obsessed India (Mint)

China throws down a challenge to India (Brahma Chellaney)

How RSS predicted China’s true colours (Makarand Paranjpe)

India has two coronavirus vaccines for human trials (India Today)

Israel: Annexation & Apartheid (Atlantic)

Eton & the making of a modern elite (1843)

How Discount Store became magnets for crime (Pro Publica)

Fake Pilots in Naya Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

Whats wrong with WhatsApp (Guardian)

Padma Lakshmi,Top Chef (Vulture)

How Kangana Ranaut is getting victimised by the industry (Navi)

The sordid history of Mount Rushmore (Smithsonian)

On the bombing of Air India ‘Kanishka’ (Harpreet)

On the massacre of Sindhi Hindus in Xinjiang (Porbotia Lora)

The lost crown of Satara (LHI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Chinese Dragon on doorstep (Major Manik Jolly)

Is India still paying for Nehru’s China policy? (M J Akbar)

When M K Narayanan stalled Siachen deal (DNA)

George Soros Vs People of Inda (Jonathan West)

How I became a poker champion in less than a year (Atlantic)

Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp (Military Times)

Arab slavery of Blacks continues (Federalist)

Growing up Sansei in LA (Guernica)

An asylum seeker in the UK (Al Jazeera)

The end of tourism? (Guardian)

Travelogue: Cuba (Team BHP)

Why do traditional Andhra homes have copper pillars? (BI)

Mumbai’s first European Resident (LHI)

On Timur, founder of Timurid Dynasty (Bharat Putra)

On the 1921 Moplah Massacre (Rakesh Krishnan Simha)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Understanding the military buildup at the India-China border (IISS)

Using satellite imagery on the India-China border (Nathan Ruser)

India’s delusions on China should end (WaPo)

Sino-India relations hits a new low (SCMP)

The ‘Five Fingers’ of the Tibetan Palm (Suhasini Haider)

A look at Nepal’s map machinations (DailyO)

Covid has exposed Kejriwal (Ruhi Tiwari)

Tamil Nadu Doctors have found an effective way to cure Covid (Lede)

The White Man in that photo (Films For Action)

Stop calling Daren Sammy ‘Kalu’ (ESPN)

Interview with Naval Ravikant (You Tube)

Marxist Lies in our textbooks – Dr. Vikram Sampath (You Tube)

Why I was suspended as an Air Asia Pilot (Capt Gaurav Taneja)

How Salman Khan’s family destroyed my career (Abhinav Singh Kashyap)

History: Malik Ambar- The Deccan’s African Defender (LHI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Hong Kong caught fire (Guardian)

America’s reckoning (Time)

The Virus will win (Atlantic)

Pakistan: The grimmest comedy (Khurram Husain)

Lebanon in turmoil as currency collapses (Al Jazeera)

The Palestinian appropriation of Black pain (TOI)

India’s Tibet dilemma (Seshadri Chari)

A crisis of faith in Congress (Open)

In the absence of travel, what’s a travel writer to do? (Guernica)

A hard life: Teaching yoga in Bali (SCMP)

The Presidential Cars of India (Team BHP)

Christopher Columbus statues beheaded across America (Smithsonian)

How Pepsi’s $32 Billion typo caused riots in the Philippines (Medium)

Duleep Singh: The Tragic Prince (LHI)

From a Nehru Dynasty fan to a Modi Bhakt (Mohan Sinha)