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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Bill Hwang lost $ 20 Billion in 2 days (Business Week)

The strange peer pressure to start a startup (Manu Joseph)

The New Establishment (Sanjay Baru)

Mumbai is a cash cow for Maha Vasooli Aghadi (FPJ)

The genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh (Tulsi Gabbard)

Understanding the Arab response to Bangladesh war (Dhaka Tribune)

The Havana Job (Truly Adventurous)

I called off my wedding. The Internet will never forget (Wired)

The racism racket (Joanna Williams)

When the Sri Harmandir Sahib disappeared (LHI)

Bahadur Shah Zafar : The last great traitor (DD)

On Friendship (Atlantic)

On Pune’s iconic Chitale Bandhu (BI)

Kalimullah Khan – The Mango Man of India (Atlas Obscura)

What a tiny masterpiece reveals about truth & beauty (NY Times)