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Weekend Mega Linkfest: June 09, 2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Rise of the Machines-who is IOT good for? (Guardian)

Hung Parliament in UK (New Statesman)

The bounty hunter of Wall Street (NYTimes)

The revenge of James Comey (New Yorker)

The rags to riches story of Kapil Sharma (YS)

Raghuram Rajan has the last laugh (Swarajya)

No one has ever made a corruption machine like this (BW)

Future of Indian Muslim Politics (Caravan)

Congress anarchy plan (Media Crooks)

The Legacy of Meesey Thimmaiah  (BI)

7 Pakistani Startups (Dawn)

Coorg Diary (Outlook)

Travelogue: Exploring Alaska (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Amitabh’s ambition (Gossip Guru)

10 Best Hotel Restaurants in India (NatGeo)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: June 02,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The biggest corruption scandal in History (Guardian)

Hell is empty and all hedge fund managers are at the Bellagio (Concourse)

Blast from the Past: Vietnam Story (US News)

The loneliness of Donald Trump (Lit Hub)

The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man (Walrus)

A Mobster, a family and a crime that won’t let them go (NYTimes)

Is the Gig Economy working? (New Yorker)

Ram Guha’s letter exposes Indian cricket stars (Scroll)

Harish Dhandev-The man who is earning Crores through farming (YS)

When did girls start wearing pink? (Smithsonian)

Surviving a visit to Agra’s Taj Mahal (Nat Geo)

Auto Review: Honda WR-V (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Sachin, A Billion Dreams (Great Bong)

Gossip: Venkaiah as President? (Gossip Guru)

Spoof in Pictures: Trump in Saudi Arabia (Dawn)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: May 12,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Middle Class Shock: Good jobs are vanishing (Jaggi)

The Great British Brexit robbery (Guardian)

Inside the hunt for Russia’s most notorious hacker (Wired)

Oyo Room’s Ponzi Scheme (The Ken)

How did I get cancer? (Dr. Rao)

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor wants you to know (CBS)

Israel’s invisible Filipino workforce (NYTimes)

The sorry state of Arab men (Economist)

Ownership Review: BMW 530d MSport (TeamBHP)

Two idiots and three pigs (Charles)

Caste teams in rural sports (Outlook)

Arun Shourie Vs PM (Gossip Guru)

Europe’s best cities for beer lovers (Nat Geo)

The World’s 14th most dangerous roads (Brightside)

Photo Essay: The Coffee House (IQ)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: May 05,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Moving a home in India 1500 miles to save it (NYTimes)

Enter Ruchir Modi (Outlook)

Power Struggle in Saudi Arabia (Zero Hedge)

Modi’s Israel visit (ORF Online)

“Being Bad” is key to take on Pakistan (Jaggi)

The accidental getaway driver (GQ)

“Anti-selling” the Tesla Model 3 (Bloomberg)

Hiking Mt. Rinjani, Indonesia (TeamBHP)

The 97 year old yoga teacher from Coimbatore (YS)

What happens after death, according to Hinduism? (Devdutt)

ISRO’s solar electric car (BI)

Why are labradors the most abandoned dog breed in India? (HP)

The “Niagara Falls of India” (Nat Geo)

Humanity has only 100 years left on Earth (Stephen Hawking)

Pranav Saboo,Founder of Ethos Watch, on his favorite watches (Forbes)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: April 28, 2017

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

British, India and Tea (Maddy)

Bastar: Proposing a radical solution (Jerry Rao)

Death of the Telegram (IE)

Xenophobia in Europe (Rafia Zakaria)

How Trump gave up on his border wall (New Yorker)

Ernest Hemingway, the investor (Paris Review)

The race to build the world’s first sex robot (Guardian)

The 80 year old Chinese runway model (GQ)

Ownership Report: A year with the Toyota Fortuner (TeamBHP)

Made-in-Chennai tiffin box becomes a hit in the US (YS)

Congress top guns looking to join BJP (Gossip Guru)

What the photos we post on Social Media say about us (Brightside)

The noisy Indian traveler (Anand Kumar)

On being away from home (Manasi Mittal)

In Photos: Vinod Khanna (Outlook)