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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 25 October, 2019

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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 18 October, 2019

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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 11 October, 2019

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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 04 October, 2019

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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 20 September, 2019

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Kashmir: The end of victimhood politics (Ram Madhav)

The rotting away of democracy (Pankaj Mishra)

The rising tensions in the Middle East (New Yorker)

Inside the raid on N Korea’s Madrid Embassy (Guardian)

The loneliness of the Delivery Man (Mint)

The rise of the Zombie Mall (Smithsonian)

The Grandmaster Diet (ESPN)

Sambit Patra gets roasted (You Tube)

An aging marathoner tries to run fast after 40 (Wired)

Very bad NRI advice (J Mathrubootham)

Jadavpur University has fallen (Op India)

The many loves of the Mountbattens (Manu Pillai)

Goa’s Feni Story (LHI)

What do I call my boyfriend in Hindi? (Arre)

Why do some people love reading? (Atlantic)