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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Middle Class and proud of it (Monika Halan)

PM Modi’s first Lok Sabha 2019 Interview (Republic)

The politics of Raghuram Rajan (Swarajya)

The underground railroad of North Korea (GQ)

China’s bottomless thirst for milk (Guardian)

Baghdadi is still alive (ATimes)

How Trump beat Mueller (Time)

Travelogue: Dachau Concentration Camp (Team BHP)

The story of ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon’ (BI)

Certificate of Retirement (J Mathrubootham)

Lincoln on how to handle criticism (Brain Pickings)

The mystery of Unakoti (LHI)

Rajat Gupta: Grace & Disgrace (Open)

A Brahmin Woman of Scandal (Manu Pillai)

On Mongolian Cuisine (SCMP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s Chanakyas (Outlook)

I, Chowkidar (M J Akbar)

On India’s political dynasties (Priya Ramani)

Inside AOC’s unlikely rise (Time)

Trump’s Golan Heights Move (Atlantic)

Why Israel is cosying up to Gulf Monarchies (Guardian)

Iran’s love for Bitcoin (ATimes)

On meeting Mrs. Obama (Granta)

The Tinder Swindler (VG)

India’s Coffee Connection (LHI)

How the British discovered tea in Assam (Madras Courier)

Modi burying hatchets (Gossip Guru)

On India’s longest running cookbook (BI)

On becoming PM (J Mathrubootham)

Holika Dahan (Deepta Roy)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Seven Minutes that changed India (Open)

Modi Wave 2.0? (Minhaz Merchant)

How the Gupta Brothers hijacked South Africa (Vanity Fair)

A repulsively casual terrorist manifesto (Atlantic)

How I rediscovered my mother tongue (Guardian)

The last King of Xinjiang (SCMP)

How do we identify our enemy India? (Dawn)

The future Supreme Leader of Iran (ATimes)

Travelogue: Meghalaya (Team BHP)

Selfie with Sambhar (J Mathrubootham)

Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety (Brain Pickings)

Ahilyabai Holkar: A Queen like no other (LHI)

Much ado about a royal throne (Manu Pillai)

On the Surf Excel Ade (Nisha Susan)

“Hotel Mumbai” and the problem with terrorism movies (New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Balakot and the backstory of Jihad (M J Akbar)

Pakistani deep state miscalculates on India (ATimes)

An opening in Abu Dhabi (IE)

Israel’s role in India’s conflict with Pakistan (Independent)

How the US has hidden it’s Empire (Guardian)

The coming indictment of Netanyahu (New Yorker)

The teachers of Bruce Lee (SCMP)

Tamil Nadu’s Accidental PM (Outlook)

The brave women of Bhuj (Better India)

Indian Air Force: The Beginnings (LHI)

Homosexuality in Medieval India (Madras Courier)

Mahagathbandhan making good progress (Gossip Guru)

Travelogue: Uzbekistan (Nat Geo)

Travelogue: 9 Days in Sri Lanka (Team BHP)

On judging a talent show (J Mathrubootham)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Last & Lost war of Pakistan (M J Akbar)

Roman Dobrokhotov, Russian Sleuth (Wired)

The Mueller Report is coming (NY Times)

Who killed Tulum, Mexico? (The Cut)

Latinos take over Texas (Guernica)

How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected? (Guardian)

The myth of white genocide in South Africa (Harpers)

Yadav Vs Yadav (DailyO)

Why is Govt of India after Anand Teltumbde ? (WaPo)

Remembering Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (BI)

On Romance (J Mathrubootham)

Mirza Ghalib in America (Dawn)

The Peshwas & their Capital (Manu Pillai)

Shaolin Kung Fu’s Indian Connection (Live History)

The 1806 Vellore Mutiny (Quartz)