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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Hong Kong caught fire (Guardian)

America’s reckoning (Time)

The Virus will win (Atlantic)

Pakistan: The grimmest comedy (Khurram Husain)

Lebanon in turmoil as currency collapses (Al Jazeera)

The Palestinian appropriation of Black pain (TOI)

India’s Tibet dilemma (Seshadri Chari)

A crisis of faith in Congress (Open)

In the absence of travel, what’s a travel writer to do? (Guernica)

A hard life: Teaching yoga in Bali (SCMP)

The Presidential Cars of India (Team BHP)

Christopher Columbus statues beheaded across America (Smithsonian)

How Pepsi’s $32 Billion typo caused riots in the Philippines (Medium)

Duleep Singh: The Tragic Prince (LHI)

From a Nehru Dynasty fan to a Modi Bhakt (Mohan Sinha)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

George Soros Vs Modi (You Tube)

Gossip: Fake Tak (Sameet Thakkar)

Hong Kong was never really British (RT)

Turkey is winning in Libya (Al Jazeera)

Police Vs Protestors in the US (T Greg Doucette)

Mahadeva as Nataraja (Srikanta Krsnamacharya)

Karakoram : A high altitude travel diary (You Tube)

History lessons from Galwan (Claude Arpi)

Climate change will make this century even worse (Indi Samarajiva)

One idea (J Mathrubootham)

Why my black parents were so strict (Atlantic)

The power of crowds (Guardian)

How Vivek Mahbubani became the funniest person in Hong Kong (SCMP)

JJ Murphy: Kerala’s rubber man (LHI)

Obituary: Basu Chatterjee (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The recently foiled terror attack in Pulwama (Harpreet)

The scam of the Delhi Golf Club & Delhi Gymkhana (Sumona Chakraborty)

The tense India-China standoff in the Himalayas (Al Jazeera)

China, India don’t need US help on their frictions (Wang Wenwen)

The idea of a Hindu Rashtra (Swarajya)

Yoga with Adriene (Guardian)

Aesthetics of behavior (M J Akbar)

The Khan brothers of Mumbai Cricket (Outlook)

Life after Zoom (J Mathrubootham)

I lived through Cyclone Amphan (Sharmishta Gooptu)

I travelled on the Vande Bharat Mission (Ananya Agarwal)

Colonialism was worse than Nazism (Indu Samarajiva)

Navsari-Home to the Parsis (LHI)

An account of a Chinese soldier during 1962 war (Medium)

How to safely use air conditioners during the pandemic (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution (New Yorker)

The saddest day of Hong Kong (Time)

The heat in Beijing (Ram Madhav)

MidEast Sands shift amid CoronaVirus outbreak (Ravi Velloor)

A second wave is inevitable (Al Jazeera)

Why Kashmiriyat is a scam (Amaan)

How Danish Sait became the voice of the lockdown (Mint)

Michael Jordan: A history of flight (ESPN)

The anti-communist massacres in Indonesia (NYBooks)

Jerusalem: 1948, 1967, 2020 (TOI)

Chakma Raja: A Buddhist King in Pakistan (LHI)

Why Savarkar had to be saved (Open)

The resilience of shithole countries (Indi Samarajiva)

Candy crushed to bits (J Mathrubootham)

The enduring Ruskin Bond (DailyO)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Strategic Implications of Indian Corruption (The Diplomat)

What happened in Maharashtra Politics in Oct-Nov 2019 (Sameet Thakkar)

The Conspiracy Theorists are winning (Atlantic)

The racist NY Times (Indi Samarajiva)

Was Sweden right? (Guardian)

A brief history of Islam in China (SCMP)

Hugging China hasn’t done us any favours (Spectator)

I don’t want to return to normal (Dr. Lisa McKenzie)

Nakba Day (Al Jazeera)

On Swami Chinmayananda (Sheshapatangi)

History: Malik Kafur’s Betrayal (LHI)

Nehru & Sardar Patel (Mint)

The anti-India, anti-Hindu and racist Charles Dickens (Sai Priya)

Just sip and flip (J Mathrubootham)

Why Copper is good at killing viruses (Smithsonian)