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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An explosive look at so-called Civil Society Activists (Sumona Chakraborty)

On the Palghar Lynching (Makarand Paranjape)

What history tells us about epidemics (Granta)

Is an alcohol ban necessary during the lockdown? (Mint)

The Original Big Short of 1865 (Boston Globe)

Will Trump go to war with Iran? (RT)

Trump’s plan to save his Presidency (Atlantic)

Pakistan on a knife edge (Dawn)

Inside the world of Indonesia’s Islamic soap operas (SCMP)

My mother & Sathya Sai Baba (Al Jazeera)

The day I left Bergen Belsen (TOI)

On the Great Barrier Reef of Australia (Afar)

Where did bats come from? (Smithsonian)

How does one make an authentic Neapolitan Pizza? (BBC)

Dream Sequence Only (J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Lockdown Leadership (Open)

The rise of a Hindu Vigilante (Wired)

How Saudi money changed Indonesia ( Guardian)

How China sees the world (Atlantic)

The friendly Mr. Wu (1843)

Chinese casinos in Cambodia (SCMP)

Corona may change Russia’s calculus in Middle East (Al Jazeera)

On the Corona Virus Pandemic (Dalai Lama)

The Catholic history of Propaganda (Qz)

Third Time Lucky (Michael Benjamin)

New York Covid Diary (NY Times)

Trek: Kashmir Great Lakes (Team BHP)

Cleaning Time (J Mathrubootham)

Jahangir’s scandalous coins (LHI)

27 ways to make breakfast from around the world (Nat Geo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Antartic is melting (Guardian)

New Economic Trends due to Corona ( Straits Times)

How China’s fake news machine is rewriting history (SCMP)

The rise and spread of a 5G Coronavirus Theory (Wired)

Coping with Corona the Jewish way (TOI)

Corona – Our debt to Darwin (Pervez Hoodbhoy)

Life in the time of Corona ( Mehr Tarar)

No Shor in the City ( Lata Gwalani)

This is Trump’s fault (Atlantic )

Boris Johnson’s shocking decline (New Yorker )

DD is now the most viewed channel (Print)

Auto Talk: One year with a Jeep Compass (Team BHP)

Beating around bush (J Mathrubootham)

Tracing the flight of Karnataka’s Double Headed Eagle (LHI)

The 1896 Bombay Plague (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Chloroquine may fight Covid-19 (Wired)

Modi did what Trump/Xi couldn’t (Makarand Paranjape)

China is avoiding blame by trolling the world (Shadi Hamid)

Lobby of Big Ticket Lawyers exposed (Jaggi)

Farooq Abdullah’s silence (Seshadri Chari)

Scindia and the Hindu Right (LHI)

The Rahul Gandhi Question (Rahul Pandita)

Why Iran is struggling to contain Coronavirus (Time)

Racism in Israel (TOI)

Why Ankara’s Syrian refugee threat has lost its impact ( Al Monitor)

Pakistan’s Cornavirus Camp: No facilities, No humanity (Guardian)

Is it OK to have a child? (Meehan Crist)

Can computers ever replace the classroom? (Guardian)

Now transfer car ownership online (Team BHP)

Mrs. Mathrubootham writes in (J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Scindia Revolt (Amita Shah )

Nothing will be left of Congress ( P D Barman)

Why Hindus are not able to tell their side of the story (Manu Joseph)

Italy: Who gets a hospital bed? (Atlantic)

Putin positions to be Russia’s eternal leader (New Yorker)

China’s Kaifeng Jews (SCMP)

Hezbollah: The curse of Lebanon (Hussain Abdul Hussain)

The Princess who got away (Rafia Zakaria)

Donald Trump is the greatest hoax on America (Preet Bharara)

Will Tokyo 2020 Olympics happen? (Time)

How to make hand sanitizer at home (Wired)

What future is there for planet? (J Mathrubootham)

Missing: The roar of the crowd (Esquire)

Profile : Begum Hazrat Mahal (LHI)

The myth of ‘Bloody Mary’ (Smithsonian)