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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How India forced China to end Pangong Tso aggression (Print)

Reimagining diplomacy in the post Covid world (S Jaishankar)

Fear of the Butcher’s knife in New Delhi (Swarajya)

Why opposition leaders are unable to erode Modi (Kartikeya Tanna)

How Socialism wiped out Venezeula’s spectacular oil wealth (Reason)

Asian Americans face a wave of violence (Vice)

How the US legalized corruption (Indi Samarajiva)

On Pak-India talks (Naila Inayat)

Rise & fall of the House of Bitcoin (ROW)

Inside the mind of Jeff Bezos (Guardian)

VCs should play bridge (Alex Danco)

Ranji Smile- America’s first celebrity chef (BI)

License No 1744 (Ramki)

12 Life Lessons from Gian-Carlo Rota (FS)

A guide to moving to Goa (MC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

No pain, No gain (Cheteshwar Pujara)

Hanuma Vihari’s inspiring journey (Jayesh)

Bold India caught Australia (SMH)

KTR’s coronation as next CM of Telangana seems certain (DailyO)

Why Indian legal reform remains an after thought (Bibek Debroy)

How the most hyped US oil merger went bust (Texas Monthly)

Letter from Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

Trained to Kill (Wired)

The hunt for Felicien Kabuga (GQ)

The plight of Indian indentured labour in Mauritius in the 1800s (Scroll)

Australian pearl industry was founded on slave labour (SCMP)

Colonialism just became Capitalism (Indi Samarajiva)

Lakshadweep’s Umbrella riots (LHI)

Jauhar-Shaka: When the enemy was at the gate (Sahana Singh)

Greatest quotes of Marcus Aurelius (Brian Feroldi)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

My life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes ( Simukai Chigudu)

What white privilege steals from us (Indi Samarajiva)

Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries ? (Karma Colonialism)

The man who turned Credit Card points into an Empire (NY Times)

The market value of my father (Wealth Simple)

What Indian car did you have a crush on? (Team BHP)

I am a victim of a serious phishing attack (Nidhi Razdan)

The story of Aswathi Hot Chips (Better India)

River rafting in Arunachal Pradesh (Nat Geo)

The second career of Michael Riegels (Granta)

Shareef ( Mahreen Sohail)

How Austrian Kings Joseph I & Charles VI decided the fate of India & America (The Kaipullai)

Remembering Mahendra Kapoor ( Ajay Mankotia)

The story of Indian Coffee (LHI)

Why Germans love getting naked in public (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The last 10 Minutes (Yuval Cherlow)

The new architecture of a New India (Sanjeev Sanyal)

The world shook as America raged (New Yorker)

The EU, CAI and the abyss (ORF)

How Kani brothers terrorised a Libyan town (BBC)

What my grandfather’s life taught me about China and America (Vincent Li)

Facebook is a doomsday machine (Atlantic)

Subaltern Hindutva (Abhinav Prakash)

The six husbands every wife should have (Rajiv Mehta)

The musical genius of Late M D Ramanathan (RV)

CIA declassified files of the 1971 war (Vikas)

Jaichand was no traitor (Only Dharma)

Joining Apple 40 years ago (Jean Louis Gassee)

The trouble with Optionality (Mihir Desai)

How Goa’s holiday homes have weathered the pandemic (Mint)