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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The Shah of political chess (Outlook)

The famous Scottish statue and it’s traffic cone hat (Mental Floss)

The Syria Catastrophe (N plus 1)

The story of Wangdi Norbu (IQ)

The deadly downside of marathons (Atlantic)

On modernist architecture (Roger Scruton)

Warren Hastings-The man who loved India (Open)

PNC Menon- Billionaire by Chance (Forbes)

Kashmir,Profits, Traitors (Media Crooks)

Ownership Review: Mercedes Benz  GLE 250D (Team BHP)

Travelogue: Cental India (Team BHP)

The inspiring story of fitness instructor Rakesh Udiyar (YS)

Kolkata taxi driver runs 2 schools & an orphanage (BI)

Vadra from Moradabad? (Gossip Guru)

The weird and wonderful Mumbai Falooda (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How the Dalai Lama escaped 58 years back (IE)

The arrival of Yogi Adityanath (Great Bong)

Why did Nehru refuse merger with Nepal (Post Card)

The Portuguese Inquisition in Goa (India Facts)

Lahore: Paradise Lost (Daily Times)

Take a course in World’s Best Universities for free (WEForum)

Jerks & the Startups they ruin (NYTimes)

Future of loneliness- Internet Isolation (Guardian)

The Hill & the Mountain (Bill Aitken)

Building in the shadow of our own destruction  (Longreads)

Startup Story : BVP (YS)

Eggs,Cheese & Toast – Mumbai style (NYTimes)

Life Rules (Bob Lefsetz)

Travelogue: Iceland (Team BHP)

Gossip: Rats chewed Crores (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

If you aren’t rich by 45, you might as well give up (BI)

Is fat killing you, or is it sugar? (New Yorker)

5 stages of grief for Lutyen’s media (Great Bong)

The untold story behind Indira Gandhi’s decision to release 93,000 Pakistani Prisoners of War (Wire)

India’s first transgender school (Atlantic)

The religion that the Iranian Mullahs fear the most (Swarajya)

The Curse of the Bahia Emerald (Wired)

How Scott Adams got hypnotized by Trump (BusinessWeek)

Michelangelo & Sebastino (1843)

The sad economics of Internet Fame (Fusion)

Geopolitics: China encircling India (IE)

The Art of the Deal with the Taliban (NYTimes)

The Yoga Lesson (New Yorker)

Rahul Gandhi’s Oxford Venture (Gossip Guru)

Travelogue: Patiala Guide (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

DMart’s success is built on Drucker’s truth (Jaggi)

Will Roger Federer ever be done? (GQ)

ScootaCar: India’s first bubble car (TeamBHP)

Startup Story: Flock (YS)

Why Renault took 10 years to succeed in India (FF)

Here’s how you can get Jio Prime for free (DailyO)

Spoof: Military aides try to cheer up Kim Jong Un (Onion)

Food History: Dal (BI)

The Offbeat Guide to Bollywood in Mumbai (NatGeo)

Ethical Traveling (LuxTravel)

What your sleeping position reveals about your personality (Brightside)

The Unfinished Book of Family (IQ)

15 most useful Google Apps you never knew existed (Air Association)

Dreams & Age (Shruti Shah)

Fear,failure and shame (Seth Godin)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Narendra Modi-The Only One (Open)

How BJP came to power in Manipur (Caravan)

Domino’s $9 Billion Pizza Empire (Bloomberg)

The untold complete story of GoJavas & Pigeon (The Ken)

Meet the Parsi Baba (Scroll)

History: The Indian Navies of the 18th Century (IQ)

History: The Maratha Commander who captured Lahore (Swarajya)

Ownership Review: Skoda Octavia (TeamBHP)

Startup Story: Rent Pay (YS)

Gone Viral: Trailer of Baahubali 2 (YouTube)

The Shakespeare performers of Cubbon Park (BI)

7 Beaches for a perfect Indian Summer (NatGeo)

5 History Bites about your cup of Ceylon Tea (LuxTravel)

A stay in Lakshadweep (IQ)

18 Weird but brilliant inventions (Brightside)