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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The rise of Mohammed Bin Salman in 10 steps (Times UK)

The ‘Crore Commanders’ of Pakistan Army (Sushant Sareen)

The race to build a desi super app (Haresh Chawla)

How a 1 Million $ plot to hack Tesla failed (MIT Review)

Cancel Culture runs amok in US Colleges (Cabot Phillips)

America’s is a shithole now (Indi Samarajiva)

The challenge of Marxism (Quillette)

What’s Ghazwa-e-Hind? (Tarek Fatah)

Onam is Vamana Jayanti (True Indology)

My brother-in-law, the gift that never stops giving (Shiv Ramdas)

You think you know who you are? Prove it. (Greg Campion)

Who is the real Mohammad Amir? (Osman Samiuddin)

Secrets of Mumbai’s medieval past (LHI)

The finest PM India never had ( Rasheed Kidwai)

Obituary: Pranab Mukherjee (Bibek Debroy)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The case of the top secret iPod (Tidbits)

Gandhis win, Congress loses (Harish Khare)

Fort Modi is impregnable (Shekhar Gupta)

This is how Biden loses (Atlantic)

China’s expansionism enters dangerous phase (The Hill)

The true story of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore (Palladium)

Parsis in Hong Kong (SCMP)

Dawood Ibrahim is Pakistan’s Schrodinger Cat (Naila Inayat)

Why do we equate genius with precocity? (Malcom Gladwell)

Mothere Teresa was no saint (Pandeyji)

Nimisha Priya, Yemeni jail inmate (News Minute)

In Ashgabat, Turkemenistan (LRB)

On Gita Press (True Indology)

On Sikh Coins (LHI)

Slavery & Vikings (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The unravelling of America (Rolling Stone)

The new Cold War with China (Foreign Policy)

Pakistan dares Saudi Arabia (ORF)

Kamala Harris: Tamil Indian or phony African (Fatah)

Jared Kushner: The good son (Atlantic)

The journey of Chinese Hawala Kingpin Luo Sang (IT)

I-Day: Elusive Freedoms (Media Crooks)

Indira Gandhi’s Time Capsule (Dharma Dispatch)

The new BRO roads of Ladakh (Kesari Dhwaj )

Dr. Ambedkar on what led to Independence (Anuj Dhar)

My Grand Father wrote the ‘Mein Kampf’ of Lithuania (Silvia Foti)

A Jain Merchant in the Mughal era (Scroll)

Stephen Marglin, radical Economist (Phenomenal World)

John Waitzkin, the most interesting person alive (George Mack)

Xi Jinping is the next Adolf Hitler (You Tube)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Let Ayodhya Ram Mandir be a reminder (Amish Tripathi)

The failure of India’s secular politics (Yogendra Yadav)

A year in the life of Ayodhya (Kanchan Gupta)

Why Gandhi inagurated the Birla Temple in Delhi (MyInd)

J&K- Less War, More Peace (Lt Gen S A Hasnain)

There are no longer any secret Iran Ops (Jake Novak)

Naya Pakistan is Naya Mapistan (Naila Inayat)

America is a sick joke (Indi Samarajiva)

Mind your language (Kansaratva)

My failure to build a Billion $ Co (Sahil Lavingia)

The Cautionary Tale of Equity Research (Marc Rubinstein)

The Prostitution Policy of the British Raj (Sai Priya)

Gopinath Bordoloi: The man who saved Assam (LHI)

The Last of the Zoroastrians (Guardian)

Delicacies of North East India (LurioDT)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Panopticon is already here (Atlantic)

The American Caste System (Guardian)

My mid-life crisis as a Russian sailor (Outside)

An unexpected visit to Pakistan (Team BHP)

Spoof: Biden’s VP shortlist (Onion)

Can masks kill you while running? (BI)

Our PM and CMs are puppets of the IAS (TOI)

Burnt Sugar (Avni Doshi)

The Sudden Change (Qais Akbar Omar)

The truth about Allah Baksh Samroo (True Indology)

A thread on Roman Treasure (Gareth Harney)

White Mughals, Whitewashing, Whitesplaining (First Post)

History of India’s Chola Empire (Thought)

Hitler never used Swastika (Swarajya)

On the Moplah Riots (Sunday Guardian)