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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How China hacked into US companies (Bloomberg)

Donald Trump’s suspect tax schemes (NYTimes)

US-China heading towards a new Cold War (ATimes)

The truth about Rafale (Open)

Death in the evening (Rahul Pandita)

What an audacious hoax reveals about Academia (Atlantic)

An ill wind (Dawn)

The ordinary people of the Raj (Manu Pillai)

Lessons from the last Swiss Finishing School (New Yorker)

Biggest Blunders in the Indian Automotive Scene (Team BHP)

The Barber from Ooty (Better India)

Ananga Ranga: The Hindu art of love (Madras Courier)

A taste of Tbilisi (DailyO)

Travelogue: Mongolia (SCMP)

A Quest for tigers in India (The Ringer)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The London Banker who broke the world (Guardian)

On the Aadhar verdict (Jaggi)

Sexual assault by Nana Patekar (Tanushree Dutta)

How Russia swinged the election for Trump (New Yorker)

How Aung San Suu Kyi lost her way (Atlantic)

Ukraine: Peace via assassinations (ATimes)

Dying alone in Japan (SCMP)

The Cartel next door (Texas Monthly)

Travelogue: Quebec (Team BHP)

The mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri (Anuj Dhar)

Why is Mr. Mathrubootham hungry? (J Mathrubootham)

How Pachisi became Ludo (Madras Courier)

3 Pakistani Startups (Dawn)

Mumbai Notebook (Anil Dharker)

East India Company: Founders of Bombay (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Take Me Back to India (Guardian)

Sign of Difficult Times to come (Markandey Katju)

Mohan Bhagwat’s idea of India (Daily O)

Everything you know about obesity is wrong (HP)

Polarization in Poland (Atlantic)

Germany’s Summer of Identity Crisis (Atlantic)

Chinese on trains (SCMP)

The 57 Foot Bahubali statue (Team BHP)

Profile: Makhan Singh, Kenya’s Revolutionary (Madras Courier)

Amit Samarth: Cycle rider across Siberia (Hindu)

Muharram in the 19th Century (Dawn)

The Colonial Clubs of India (Open)

Local Indian Liquors (Outlook)

New Rahulism (Gossip Guru)

Non-stop comedy in my house (J Mathrubootham)