Tag: megalinkfest

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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Jaipur Jolt (Open)

India-China Relationship will be reset (Shivshankar Menon)

The most significant case that SC ever heard (Bar & Bench)

Turmoil in Akali Dal (DailyO)

Bild, Merkel & the Culture Wars (Guardian)

Price of ambition in Karachi (Dawn)

A strange Roman Ring story (Gareth Harney)

The importance of Sunny (ESPN)

Why I resigned from NYTimes (Bari Weiss)

Covid Conversations with one of America’s richest men (BB)

James Tod’s Rajasthan Chronicles (LHI)

The Chinese Emperor who built Beijing (SCMP)

The story of a Malawian Kung Fu Fighter (Al Jazeera)

Seeking solace in Hafez (Guernica)

Is Narendra Modi a Crypto Jew? (NWO Broadcast Corp)

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)