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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Is there a God? (Stephen Hawking)

Duterte’s War on Drugs (Guardian)

Author of the Indian Century (M J Akbar)

The Controversy over P G Wodehouse (Times of Israel)

The Golden Bough (Salman Rushdie)

The rise and rise of the ‘Asshole’ (Madras Courier)

The rise of Coffee Shaming (Atlantic)

The story of Faizabad and its Begums (LHI)

The surprising truth about Indian food (BBC Travel)

Maggots- The Future of Food (SCMP)

Real Humiliation (J Mathrubootham)

Sitharaman Vs Journalists (Gossip Guru)

Why supercars don’t sell in India (Team BHP)

The Kitchen Maid as a Bhakti Poet (Manu Pillai)

Kartarpur- The precursor to Sikh religion (Dawn)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Iran is right (Slate)

State Capture in South Africa (Guardian)

African Americans & the Moon Landing (Smithsonian)

The Texas Town that bet on Bitcoin and lost (Wired)

A Cultural Survey of the Economy (Bibek Debroy)

The rise of Aaditya Thackeray (DailyO)

Is Arif Mohammed Khan BJP’s next Presidential nominee ? (DailyO)

Goa, Goan , Gone (Swarajya)

What to do if bitten by a snake (Better India)

My favourite smell (J Mathrubootham)

Notes on a Suicide (Rana Dasgupta)

Indulekha: A pioneering Malayalam novel (LHI)

The thwarted promise of 1857 (Manu Pillai)

The Goan ‘Susegad’ (BBC Travel)

Moscow Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Israelis come to India after army stint (TOI)

Clean Up of Corporate India has begun (Sucheta Dalal)

A new Uzbekistan is taking shape (SCMP)

Money laundering in UK (Guardian)

The Dalai Lama’s lapse (Rafia Zakaria)

The political will to solve Kashmir (Makarand Paranjape)

Lotus will bloom in Andhra (Gossip Guru)

Inside the Islamic State modules in India (Open)

Can Rajnath Singh bite the bullet? (India Today)

The story about Amar Chitra Katha (LHI)

The truth about the Hot Dog (BBC Travel)

Black Ops (J Mathrubootham)

Calling 108 (Better India)

Ownership Review: Jawa 42 Bike (Team BHP)

The rise & fall of Varanasi’s corpse photographers (Mint)

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)