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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Saudi, Putin, Oil & the Great Game (Indradeep Khan)

Normality returns to Hong Kong (ST)

UK : How NHS made the crisis worse (RT)

The tensions underlying Pakistan’s Ramadan decision (Atlantic)

Why the foreign media loves anti-BJP columnists (Print)

Why the Western media keeps getting N Korea wrong (Al Jazeera)

History: How the Marathas captured Attock (eSamskriti)

Why the media goes out of its way to humanise terrorists (Swarajya)

India’s lavish weddings go online (Dawn)

A million phone calls (J Mathrubootham)

My Dad’s extra-martial affair ( Sucharita)

On Bois Locker Room ( Dr Yamini Shaista)

Kolkata – The memoirs of a bruised city (Open)

Ramzan Diary (Outlook)

Labradors remain the most popular # 1 dog (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Why the Coronavirus is so confusing (Atlantic)

What happened on the Diamond Princess (Wired)

How the Pandemic has shattered the myth of College in America (New Yorker)

Does BCG vaccine really protect Indians from Coronavirus? (You Tube)

The Malaysian Job (Harpers)

China in Africa (Japan Times)

The force is still with Jack Dorsey (Vanity Fair)

Lessons on hope from a Hungarian forced labourer (Al Jazeera)

Motor Cycling in Western Arunachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

Haircut in the time of coronavirus (J Mathrubootham)

How did Indian History become a myth? (Nanditha Krishna)

When the 1897 bubonic plague ravaged India (Aanchal Malhotra)

Bharat Mata- From Art to Reality (LHI)

On Irrfan Khan (Danish Husain)

Obituary: Rishi Kapoor (BBC)