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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The rot in JNU (Makarand Paranjpe)

On the Ayodhya case (Seshadri Chari)

The power of unconditional hospitality (Priya Basil)

What Riyaaz Amlani wants you to know about whisky (Mint)

Lebanon doesn’t need heros (Fadlo Khuri)

Impeachment comes for Trump (New Yorker)

Bullet-Proof Cars: All you need to know (Team BHP)

All roads lead to Rishikesh (Nat Geo)

On new Technologies (J Mathrubootham)

Fiction: To the Dogs (Jianan Qian)

On Rajatarangini (Madras Courier)

The Zoji La battle of 1948 (Print)

Travelogue: South India Bike Odyssey (Dr Vijay Malik)

Madame Tussaud’s early Indian connection (LHI)

The word that encapsulates Frenchness (BBC Travel)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The many beginnings of Diwali (Manu Pillai)

On the Maharashtra & Haryana elections (Outlook)

Asaduddin Owaisi’s dream is coming true (Print)

Amravati: Capital Chaos (India Today)

How liberalism failed in Eastern Europe (Guardian)

The untold story of the 2018 Olympics Cyber Attack (Wired)

On collecting sea shells (Hakai)

Sunroofs: Yay or Nay? (Team BHP)

On Spiritual Travel journeys (Reza Aslan)

Bound to Dharma (Bibek Debroy)

Why Indians in India don’t get Nobel Prize (J Mathrubootham)

The 400 year old memoirs of Sir Thomas Roe (Madras Courier)

Cornelia Sorabji’s fight (LHI)

The day Zubin Mehta gave Israel his heart (Noah Efron)

The complicated history of Flamenco in Spain (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The brutal history of Kalapani (Guardian)

How Savarkar and RSS won (HT)

On Abhijit Banerjee (Bibek Debroy)

Ayodhya Advocate: K Parasaran (Swarajya)

How the Communists killed industry in West Bengal (Rediff)

Updates from Kashmir (Abhijit Iyer Mitra)

Walkover for Devendra Fadnavis (Hemant Desai)

When GoFundMe gets ugly (Atlantic)

On Yasukuni (Al Jazeera)

Bike Ride: Coastal Gujarat (Dr. Vijay Malik)

Travelogue: Iceland (Team BHP)

Gold cannons & a poison plot (Mint)

Video: Pune & the Maratha Empire (Uday Kulkarni)

Enjoy within limits (J Mathrubootham)

Why you don’t see your friends anymore (Atlantic)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (Atlantic)

The Valley of abandoned Gods (Rahul Pandita)

On the Kurds (Frank)

Genocide in Kurdistan (James R Russell)

The US as a rogue state (Samanth Subramaniam)

Russia in the Middle East (Shajahan Madampat)

Voices from Xinjiang (Believer)

Michael Board- Blackjack Coach (SCMP)

On the Campaign Trail with Kamala Harris (Time)

Travelogue: Cambodia (Team BHP)

On Alexa (J Mathrubootham)

How robots guarded Buddha’s relics in Ancient India (Madras Courier)

The Red Taj (LHI)

The Judge who sentenced a ‘Peshwa’ (Manu Pillai)

Who was the real Freddie Mercury? (BBC)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Bob Iger remembers Steve Jobs (Vanity Fair)

The China hand in Kashmir (Brahma Chellaney)

Maharashtra Elections: A foregone verdict (Open)

Why the BJP, RSS want to own Gandhi (India Today)

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Insider)

How Billionaire David Shaw ensures his kid’s college admissions (Pro Publica)

Letter from Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

How travelling made me not want to “settle down” (Shivya Nath)

Scams with online travel bookings (Media Crooks)

Road Trip: Austria, Slovenia, Italy (Team BHP)

On non stop action (J Mathrubootham)

Why mythology is male oriented (Madras Courier)

Black Magic & a bureaucrat (Manu Pillai)

Belapur’s Strategic Fort (LHI)

Mumbai Meri Jaan (Arre)