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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The Day of the Drone (Open)

How Facebook brought political trickery to Tech (NYTimes)

Mexico’s mass graves (Mens Journal)

Yemen & global warming (ATimes)

Trump’s love affair with Saudi Arabia (Atlantic)

Organised Crime in UK (Guardian)

Becoming Anne Frank (Smithsonian)

My letter to a nightclub (Brown Girl)

Piyush Goyal Vs Anil Ambani (Gossip Guru)

Nur & The Koh-i-Noor (MC)

Deng Xiaoping in France (SCMP)

The genius and patriot that was C V Raman (Ratnakar Sadasyula)

Not one fellow has new ideas (J Mathrubootham)

Mountaineering: A rescue at 8,000 metres (Mint)

Ayodhya Diary (HP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War (NYTimes)

The wild, wild story of the MEK (Guardian)

Ram Mandir: Ab Nahi To Kab? (Swarajya)

Which way will Behenji go? (Rahul Pandita)

Inside Israels’ YAMAM (Vanity Fair)

Blasphemy, Pakistan’s New Religion (Mohammed Hanif)

Jose Mourinho’s last stand (ESPN)

DIY: Android Car Tracker (Team BHP)

Why Mughal Emperor Jahangir wanted to milk a lioness (HP)

What you can expect from today’s youth? (J Mathrubootham)

When Michael Jackson performed in Mumbai (Madras Courier)

The Blood Bath of Kodavas by Tipu Sultan (Readoo)

The Colonial State & India’s Gods (Manu Pillai)

The dark side of Langkawi (SCMP)

Remembering Iqbal (Dawn)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s Job Crisis (Nandan Nilekani)

Modi’s Netaji political coup (M Paranjape)

Nageswara Rao, IPS (Savukku)

From Lithuania, With Love (Roads & Kingdoms)

Vancouver: Drowning in Chinese Money (Bloomberg)

Kidnappings on the Iran-Pakistan border (ATimes)

How Erdogan took control of the Khashoggi case (Dawn)

Did Uber steal Google’s IP (New Yorker)

Durga Puja Diaries, Kolkata (Team BHP)

Woes of Ghulam Nabi Azad (Gossip Guru)

The biggest problem (J Mathrubootham)

The Baha’i Lotus Temple (Madras Courier)

Baijiu as the new whisky (SCMP)

The Conqueror of Destiny (Aatish Taseer)

R K Narayan’s second opinions (Caravan)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Jamal Khashoggi’s last column (Washington Post)

Modi & Markets (Dhiraj Nayyar)

Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami Speech (First Post)

Do-or-Die for Congress in upcoming Assembly Elections (Outlook)

A Million $ Blackmail Scheme (Narratively)

My Great Grand Father – The Bundist (NYBooks)

The myth of meritocracy (Guardian)

John Oliver on Saudi Arabia (Big Picture)

Trade war fallout on China’s nouveau riche (ATimes)

Travelogue: Dubai (Team BHP)

Gossip: Digvijay Singh in the doldrums (Gossip Guru)

Inside Facebook’s wild early days (Wired)

History: Malala & the Battle of Maiwand (Madras Courier)

Spoof: Sprinter feels like an idiot (The Onion)

Obituary: Paul Allen (NYTimes)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why M J Akbar should resign (HP)

How the US forced China to quit stealing (Wired)

The disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi (Atlantic)

The Price of Fame (Kaveree Bamzai)

India’s #MeToo movement gathers momentum (Time)

Can populism be actually good for democracy? (Guardian)

The original accidental Prime Minister (Manu Pillai)

Raised by YouTube (Atlantic)

10,000 Km North East Ride (Team BHP)

Spoof: Calm Trump hard at work (The Onion)

Why Rammohan Roy started India’s first Persian newspaper (Madras Courier)

Ten Big Life Lessons from Big B (DailyO)

Niti-s of Rajniti (Gossip Guru)

Why I did not come first rank in school (J Mathrubootham)

Food : Fasting & Feasting (Mint)