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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Man loses 1.86 Cr in six missed calls (BI)

Women in Pakistan’s Police Force (Guernica)

Der Spiegel’s cracked mirror (Atlantic)

Confessions of a Cable Guy (HuffPost)

Travelogue: Statue of Unity, Gujarat (Team BHP)

100% against all plants (J Mathrubootham)

How Sanskrit influenced Japanese Syllabic alphabets (Madras Courier)

Why our Bollywood is so delicious (DailyO)

I work from home (Colin Nissan)

Diet: Protein Mania (Guardian)

The struggle to be (Mehr Tarar)

The future is female (Kaveree Bamzai)

On the Rama Krishna Mission (Hindol Sengupta)

Obituary: Mrinal Sen (Mint)

Obituary: Kader Khan (Economist)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Rise, Lean and Fall of Sheryl Sandberg (Buzz Feed)

Happiness Vs Satisfaction (Daniel Kahneman)

Sikh Militancy 2.0 (Swarajya)

Being a Punjabi (Open)

Being Assamese (Outlook)

How 2018 smashed Bollywood’s Star Concept (DailyO)

2018- The year of maximalist weddings (Supriya Nair)

‘The Apprentice’ resurrected Trump (New Yorker)

Confessions of a HK Expat teacher (SCMP)

What military service taught me about America (Guardian)

The Shah of Iran’s ultimate party (Madras Courier)

The real Chanakya (Gossip Guru)

The search for Mrs. Sen (Aarefa Johari)

St. Thomas Cathedral : 300 years of Christmas (Mint)

In Photos: Jobs in 19th Century India (QZ)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Google is spying on us (Guardian)

Open Letter to Barkha Dutt (Abhijit Iyer-Mitra)

Rahul Gandhi, the Economic Saboteur (Jaggi)

Iraq’s post-ISIS campaign of revenge (New Yorker)

How UAE is profiting from the Yemen war (Guardian)

Assad wins in Syria (Time)

How CTrip is changing global tourism (SCMP)

Bureaucrats under scanner (Gossip Guru)

Mir Sultan Khan: The unsung chess genius (Madras Courier)

The best time to wake up (Daily O)

Tech is killing Street Food (Atlantic)

The untold story of Kashmiri Pheran (Outlook)

1919: A Portrait (Open)

Priya Varrier’s wink (Mint)

Obituary: Chennai’s Rs. 5 Doctor (BI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Inside Tesla’s Production Hell (Wired)

2019 looks like an open game now (Outlook)

Ten Messages for Modi (Media Crooks)

Technology: The Master of Games (Smithsonian)

Inside China’s global propaganda campaign (Guardian)

Bangladeshi Hindus: Living on the run (Swarajya)

The Life & Times of a Mossad Agent (SCMP)

Pakistan : Don’t surrender to mob rule (Pervez Hoodbhoy)

Where India quietly watches China at sea (ATimes)

Travelogue: Bhutan (Team BHP)

The bitter history of sugar (Madras Courier)

The Cult of K (Open)

100 years of B.K.S. Iyengar (Mint)

Danse Macabre (Great Bong)

Why Russia loved Raj Kapoor (BI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The friendship that made Google huge (New Yorker)

Interview with Imran Khan (Washington Post)

A sloppy hatchet job on Modinomics (Anantha Nageswaran)

On Maratha Reservations (Caravan)

Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess (Vox)

Riots in France (New Yorker)

Seoul-Tokyo brawl (ATimes)

The inspiring story of a Maharashtra Farmer (BI)

Babur, Baburnama & Babri (Madras Courier)

Learning to be properly married (Mint)

Naturally Stupid (Media Crooks)

Metallica’s Whiskey (Esquire)

Travelogue: Iran (Daily O)

Mumbai Notebook (Anil Dharker)

Remembering George H W Bush (Mikhail Gorbachev)