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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What does Putin really want? (NY Times)

King of the Snitches (Bloomberg)

UK’s true role in the Yemen War (Guardian)

The Mystery of Lord Jagannath’s Temple Treasure (Outlook)

India’s first woman fire fighter (Better India)

Aliyah: Four years an Israeli (Times of Israel)

Technology: The next big battery breakthrough (Quartz)

On Retirement Blues (J Mathrubootham)

India’s greatest spy who wasn’t (Madras Courier)

Kapurthala’s Spanish Maharani (LHI)

The man behind Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s statue in Lahore (IE)

The Prince & the Golden Cow (Manu Pillai)

Travelogue: Tel Aviv (Nat Geo)

Reliving the Great Escape (Rishad Saam Mehta)

Kashmir: A final journey (Siddhartha Gigoo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Conversation with Azim Premji (Anil Dharker)

Bengal Doctor’s Stir (Swarajya)

KCR and the art of killing the Opposition (India Today)

Inside the Crypto World’s biggest scandal (Wired)

Hong Kong’s fight for freedom (Ma Jian)

The end of the Arctic (SCMP)

Profile: Tulsi Gabbard (NY Mag)

The Billionaire descendants of a Nazi (NY Times)

Safe Driving in the rains (Team BHP)

Travelogue: Lisbon (Nat Geo)

Back in India (J Mathrubootham)

Friend of my youth (Amit Chaudhuri)

70 years of Shankar-Jaikishan (Madras Courier)

A Mumbai Church and its Afghan Connection (LHI)

Calcutta Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The new Mr. Tough (India Today)

Return to Kashmir (Rahul Pandita)

The Battle for Bengal (Great Bong)

El Chapo- The last of the Cartel Kingpins (Guardian)

The Price of Oil (Texas Monthly)

How Britain lost the plot on Brexit (Tina Brown)

How many bones you would break to get laid? (The Cut)

Weird new scam in Bangalore (Team BHP)

One plain dosa please (J Mathrubootham)

How Begum Samru became the only Catholic ruler in India (MC)

A Bijapur Sultan and Tantric Deities (Manu Pillai)

Odisha’s Sambalpur (LHI)

Godse Worship goes Mainstream (Ramachandra Guha)

Narrating history through cricket (Salil Tripathi)

Across the world, parents are raising Rahul Gandhis (Manu Joseph)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Rahul Gandhi’s disgraceful campaign (Nupur Sharma)

Why the forgotten majority voted for Modi (Rajan Laad)

Explaining Naveen Patnaik’s success (Sambit Nayak)

Saffron Star over Bengal (Sunanda Datta Ray)

The social psychology of political rallies (Madras Courier)

How Taekwondo made me (Dina Nayeri)

Secret Spectacles (BBC)

Rainwater Harvesting Syringe (BI)

Cycling to Sach Pass (Team BHP)

The glorious boredom of my walk in Japan (Wired)

A Burmese King in an Indian Exile (Manu Pillai)

Mumbai’s beloved Prithvi Theatre (LHI)

The surprising truth about Caesar Salad (BBC Travel)

Two Types of Airport People (Amanda Mull)

Khan Market Diary (Vijay Chauthaiwale)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Polarization is not evil (Manu Joseph)

On ‘Hindu Terror’ (Makarand Paranjape)

Awakening Bharat Mata (Swapan Dasgupta)

Bengal 2019 is a warm up (Indrani Bagchi)

The Battle of Sirhind (Harpreet)

Who killed Olof Palme? (Guardian)

Baijiu in America (SCMP)

The most dangerous man in the world (ATimes)

Profile: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (BI)

Why the writing in GOT Season 8 feels off (Wired)

A Letter to Ruskin Bond (K Vijayakrishnan)

Calicut & the discovery of Brazil (LHI)

A Warrior King and a goat’s eyes (Manu Pillai)

The truth about the French Fry (BBC Travel)

Obituary: I M Pei (L A Times)