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Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Profile : Qassem Soleimani ( CTC )

Iran’s call for revenge (TOI)

The Phantoms of Chittagong ( Dhaka Tribune)

What Kargil wants after Article 370 (Mint)

Dismantling Sheikh Abdullah’s legacy (Naseer Ganai )

Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil’s Far Right ( Atlantic )

Maya, the woman who almost broke free ( BBC )

Xi Jinping & Winnie the Pooh (SCMP)

What the West gets wrong about China ( Unherd)

On the sexual jihad in Cologne (Jessica Isabel Robeson)

Guide to Indian Food ( Ian Anderson )

The Leopard and the Baboon ( Time )

Make 2020 the year of less sugar ( NY Times)

How to use your flaws to better yourself ( Manu Joseph)

2010s was never ending nonsense (J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The fallacy of liberal angst (Swapan Dasgupta)

Why Modi will win the battle on CAA (Makarand Paranjape)

Being Amit Shah (Open)

Inside Mexio’s bloody cartel war for avocados (LA Times)

Why WeWork went wrong (Guardian)

20,000 feet under the sea (Atlantic)

The Genocide that US can’t remember but Bangladesh can’t forget (Smithsonian)

Japan’s secret war and the Atomic Bomb (ATimes)

Faiz- Islamist or Marxist? (Vikas Saraswat)

Hand Dryers Vs Paper Towels (Samanth Subramaniam)

Case of Missing Marriage Certificate (J Mathrubootham)

Sleeping with danger (Hindu)

The ‘Other Gandhi’ (LHI)

What’s its like to live in an over-touristed city? (BBC Travel)

Amsterdam Diary (Ashok Mehta)

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Rahul Kanwal interviews Amit Shah (You Tube)

Lage Raho Kejriwal (Print)

Pakistani Hindu refugees Vs Medha Patkar (Op India)

Bollywood, please spare us your stupidity (Tushar Gupta)

South Korea’s Millionaire Celebrity School teachers (Guardian)

Japan’s Pizza Toast (Eater)

The dark world of online murder markets (Harpers)

China Vs India at the Andaman Sea (SCMP)

Kandahar 1999: Story of a Hijacking (Open)

The fall of Dhaka from Bihari eyes (Dawn)

Why it is the right time to reclaim Gilgit-Baltistan (Claude Arpi)

A Muslim Royal’s Christian Faith (Manu Pillai)

Damascus Steel’s Indian Origins (LHI)

On losing weight (J Mathrubootham)

Your monthly car expenditure? (Team BHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

Why is Assam burning (Kaushik Deka)

Sarma-Sonowal rivalry in Assam (Print)

The Influencer and the Hit Man ( One Zero )

The Gospel of Wealth according to Marc Benioff (Wired)

Imran Khan’s memory loss (Naila Inayat)

At the Nobel Prize Ceremony (Chiki Sarkar)

How climate change is hurting Bhutan ( Shivya Nath )

I was once a Socialist ( David Brooks )

What I learnt with my eyes shut ( Swanand Kelkar)

Driving Holiday in New Zealand (Team BHP)

NRIs will complain, complain, complain (J Mathrubootham)

The Etymology of @ (Madras Courier)

The Texas Archives War of 1842 ( Smithsonian )

The 1972 Battle of Khulna (Lt. Gen. H S Panag)

Nagasaki – The Last Bomb ( New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Blood and Soil in Modi’s India (New Yorker)

Stoking recession fears (Bibek Debroy)

The Pawar-Fadnavis Rivalry (India Today)

Whatever it takes, even war with India (Ashraf Jehangir Qazi)

Inside China’s surveillance state (Time)

Muslim sons of a Brahmin Peshwa (Manu Pillai)

The false promise of morning routines (Atlantic)

The intoxicating history of gins (New Yorker)

Profile: Hyderabad Top Cop V S Sajjanar (Swarajya)

Found: India’s Moon Lander Crash Site (Smithsonian)

Mt: Everest: Chaos at the Top of the World (GQ)

Michael Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle (Foreign Policy)

Everything Normal (J Mathrubootham)

The fish traders of Madras (Madras Courier)

Murshidabad: Death of a Capital (LHI)