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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Ford Foundation got Modi to back off (BS)

Modi: The Chief of Counterfeit Grief (Wire)

How Arnab changed Indian TV News (DailyO)

Clinton Presidency will be a disaster for India (Sunday Guardian)

Savarkar,Hindutva and Sangh Parivaar (Saaf Baat)

The Skype Sex Scam-A fortune built on shame (BBC)

Pankaj Mishra: Interpreter of Maladies (Rupa)

The Blind Astronomer of Nova Scotia (YouTube)

Close Door Buttons on Elevators don’t work (Quartz)

USHV-United Spectrum of Hindu Votes (5Forty3)

The shocking murder of Spain’s most flamboyant politician (Guardian)

Hugo Wood-The man who saved the Western Ghats (Mint)

A tribute to Major Somnath Sharma (BI)

Why Rita Bahuguna joined the BJP (Gossip Guru)

Best Cheap Vacation Countries to Visit (Thrill List)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The story of Tata Sons (Jehangir Pocha)

Mr.Marwari-Have you met Mr.Tata ? (Rodinhood)

The Coming Caste Wars (Outlook)

Electing Trump will be the biggest F*** You in history (Michael Moore)

The Spy who couldn’t spell (Guardian)

Inside the paranoid world of Julian Assange (BuzzFeed)

How I lost the race for UN Secretary General’s job (Shashi Tharoor)

Restorers lift the lid on Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem (Guardian)

Earth has lost more than half its animals since 1970 (Slate)

Travelogue:Iceland Road Trip (Team BHP)

Hrithik Roshan’s Watch Collection (GQ)

Is travel a good way to test a relationship? (NatGeo)

A language to unite mankind (New Yorker)

3 Ways to mess up your kids with money (Forbes)

Why I wake up at 4:22 am (LinkedIn)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Awesome Video of the Future: The Self-Driving Car (Tesla)

Freddie Mercury-The rockstar from Panchgani (Scroll)

Ramanujan:Encounter with the Infinite (Believer)

A Karnataka Billionaire’s wedding invite (NewsMinute)

A theory of Polytheism (IndiaFacts)

A Tattoo for the King (Atlantic)

What happened on Eastern Airlines Flight 980 (OutsideOnline)

Surviving the fall of Mosul (National Geographic)

Greenland is Melting (New Yorker)

Road Tripping through the African Savannah (TeamBHP)

A startup for Indian dentists (YS)

Has Samsung been fired? (Charles)

Nation is with Arnab Goswami (Anupam Kher)

How Kejriwal is wooing journalists (Gossip Guru)

The Delhi lawyer who filed a 125 Cr IT return (Quint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Software dies at 17 (Andy)

Death of a King (Al Jazeera)

Punjab,not UP, will decide course of national politics (HP)

RSS: The Family Makeover (Open)

AAP: A One Man Show (Caravan)

Shimon Peres had a solution to the Kashmir problem (IH)

India has become like Pakistan (Harish Khare)

Sharif Brothers Vs Pak Army (Quint)

What to do in 36 Hours in Mumbai (NYTimes)

A Durga Pujo Short Story (Great Bong)

Prithvi Narayan Shah:Great Gorkha Emperor (IF)

Startup : JogoApp (YS)

A Whiskey for People who prefer Vodka (Bloomberg)

Gossip: Vikram Chatwal has lost it (FS)

Media Bullies (Media Crooks)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What happened in Kashmir? (Atlantic)

The desperation of Indian housewives in the US (Quartz)

Army Vs Anti Nationals (Media Crooks)

Pakistan will win any war against India (Pakistan Tribune)

How a peanut seller became Asia’s biggest billionaire (Time)

The mind bending Benedict Cumberbatch (VanityFair)

Sweden: A cashless world (New Yorker)

The Cobalt pipeline (Washington Post)

Profile of the richest man ever- John D Rockefeller (Part I & II)

Valentine Strasser: Once the world’s youngest dictator (BuzzFeed)

Auto Talk: Small and useful car accessories (TeamBHP)

This is what I do in a negotiation (James Altucher)

James Bond is selling paan masala on Twitter (DailyO)

Sunil Mittal gets a reality check (Gossip Guru)

3 Entrepreneurial lessons from Arnold Palmer (Forbes)