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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The once & future Imran Khan (Aatish Taseer)

How the killers of IAF officers got away (Rahul Pandita)

Russia’s Grid Hackers (Wired)

What College Admissions Offices really want (NY Times)

West Bengal celebrates Ganpati (Gossip Guru)

Naidu Vs Jagan Reddy (Swarajya)

The next Dalai Lama (DailyO)

Ditched by the Ummah (Pervez Hoodbhoy)

How Turkish TV is taking over the world (Guardian)

Trump, Rouhani & Netanyahu (TOI)

How Snooker originated in Ooty (Madras Courier)

A great robbery that shook the Raj (LHI)

On Austria’s National Dish (BBC Travel)

The ‘Jutti’ goes mod (Sohini Dey)

Madurai Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India is ready to touch down on the Moon (Wired)

The cost of Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery (Buzz Feed)

A honest look at India’s VC Industry (Quartz)

Bangladesh cannot hide history (Forbes)

Tauba, Tauba (Naila Inayat)

Why Sonia Gandhi won’t crack the whip in Congress (Rasheed Kidwai)

Commode for Chidambaram (India Today)

The politics of Lahore’s Hindu Temples (Dawn)

A Foodie’s guide to Israel (Spectator)

The Formula for Happiness (Dr. Daniel Crosby)

The Ballet Boy of Bengal (Better India)

Where is real friendship? (J Mathrubootham)

Madurai: Myths & Miracles (LHI)

Maratha blood & Persian veins (Manu Pillai)

Dead Sea Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

A personal memoir as a PSU Banker (Manas Chakravarty)

Stand up and do what, PM Imran Khan? (Naila Inayat)

Pak’s Medina project is finished (Sanjay Dixit)

My experience on intermittent fasting (Amit Gadre)

A message from the Khan Market Gang (Salil Tripathi)

Knot a Mizo thing (Outlook)

Arun Jaitley: The Constant Counsellor (Open)

Rant: The lunatics have taken over the asylum (Bob Lefsetz)

Exploring the Chinese Car Scene (Team BHP)

Vancouver Housing Crisis with Chinese characteristics (ATimes)

The first Israel-Iran War (Times of Israel)

The Exhibition of 1851 (LHI)

Are smart people over rated? (Malcolm Gladwell)

Travelogue: Bahrain (Parnashree Devi)

Tribute: Kanchan Chaudhary (BI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The tangled web of Kashmir (Naeem Jilani)

Checkmate, Pakistan (Lawrence Sellin)

From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment (M J Akbar)

The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau (Guardian)

Searching for Duke (Hazlitt)

How life became an endless, terrible competition (Atlantic)

Discontent in JDU (Gossip Guru)

How Mysore’s Maharaja created history in Western Classical Music (BI)

An abduction on Malabar Hill (Manu Pillai)

Coffee, colonialism and crap (Madras Courier)

Bint el-Balad (Nour Malas)

Tibet’s Tsampa (BBC Travel)

Parle-G Pe Charcha (Arre)

Bakri Id Diary (Outlook)

Obituary: Khayyam (Dawn)