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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

IBM & IIT Kanpur (Print)

Why Trump’s plan for Palestine will not work (Guardian)

Brexit: Sadness & Relief (BBC)

The secret history of the 9/11 investigation (Pro Publica)

Uighur Muslims in China (NY Times)

The Woman shaking up the diamond industry (New Yorker)

Google’s Quest for Quantum Supremacy (Wired)

The making of a Maasai safari guide (SCMP)

History: Bakhtiyar Khilji’s disastrous expedition (LHI)

The 1948 anti-Brahmin Riots (True Indology)

The 10 worst Indian cars of the last decade (Team BHP)

Pizza Maavu (J Mathrubootham)

We need to talk (Guernica)

The true history behind the ‘1917’ movie (Smithsonian)

Newer Delhi (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

A story about a Hindu Bengali refugee (Arunudoy)

Hindutva is Hinduism that resists (DNA)

Why foes of BJP may be right this time (Manu Joseph)

The Big Scandal of Indology (Subhash Kak)

Your life is driven by Network Effects (James Currier)

How fitness app Stava became a religion (Guardian)

The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train (Japan Times)

The Middle Eastern problem Soleimani figured out (Hassan Hassan)

What does Mohammed Bin Zayed want? (NY Times)

Confessions of Tipu Sultan (My India)

Ayub the first (Dawn)

Conversation with Mohammed Hanif (SCMP)

The Commissioner who left Bombay bankrupt (Mid Day)

19th Century American Slave Sale & Auction Ads (Mind Circle)

The Indian Food Thali (Vandana Jayrajan)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Muslim Rage (Open)

Why JNU is a target for the Govt (Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay)

Shut down JNU (Media Crooks)

Trump has made us all stupid (NY Times)

How the US knew Iranian missiles were coming (Wired)

How Israel views Trump’s strike against Iran (New Yorker)

A Scandal in Oxford (Guardian)

How the US created El Salvador’s bloody gang wars (Guardian)

Royal Hypocrites (Atlantic)

The incredibly happy life of Larry David (GQ)

The Ramayana: A Tibetan retelling (LHI)

The oldest person in the world turns 117 (Smithsonian)

From Hawker to Hacker (The Youth)

The unmaking of India’s fountain pens (Bibek Debroy)

Obituary: Akbar Padamsee (Mint)

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)