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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How organised crime took over Russia (Guardian)

The Great British Tea Heist (Smithsonian)

Why the Rohingya can’t return (HP)

The Kurds keep remaking the Middle East (Atlantic)

Trump rolls the dice on China trade (ATimes)

The road out of Gwadar (Dawn)

Cutting ‘old heads’ at IBM (Pro Publica)

A moral reckoning in Silicon Valley (New Yorker)

The farmer’s long march to Mumbai (Rural India)

Road Trip: Prague & Germany (Team BHP)

Spoof: Saudi Prince & Jared Kushner (The Onion)

A Marathi Food movie with a caste problem (Arre)

Average intelligence on Earth has come down by 10 points (J Mathrubootham)

Stephen Hawking Diary (Outlook)

See if you can pass the FBI Special Agent test (Brightside)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Qatar’s kidnapped royalty became pawns in Iran’s plot (NYTimes)

Putin’s politics of eternity (Guardian)

FBI piqued by Russia sex spy story (ATimes)

Silicon Valley’s ‘Fake it till you Make it’ culture (Wired)

What Trump and Kushner taught me about deception (Time)

Yogi Adityanath’s loss of face (Scroll)

Kashmir- The Cost of a Statement (Rahul Pandita)

Travelogue: Lahaul & Spiti (Team BHP)

The falling apart of NDA (Gossip Guru)

Travel Hacks from around the world (Nat Geo)

How I beat ‘Northeasternitis’ (Arre)

Who wants social media? (J Mathrubootham)

The key to happiness is knowing everything sucks (Ryan Holiday)

Start a book club with your tween (Offspring Lifehacker)

ISRO Spy Case Diary (Outlook)

Some off beats for the weekend:

The murder of Kim Jong-Nam (SCMP)

The China-India Tango (Dawn)

Buddhists Vs Muslims in Sri Lanka (ATimes)

How S P Mookerjee saved Bengali Hindus from annihilation (Swarajya)

Gray Hat: Marcus Hutchins (NYMag)

Operation Bayonet (Wired)

Travelogue: Andaman (TeamBHP)

Ghulam Nabi and Naag Devata (Gossip Guru)

Meet iconic architect Balkrishna Doshi (BI)

55 photos of girls going to school all over the world (HP)

Food Trail in Madhya Pradesh (NatGeo)

Our mothers, the reluctant feminists (Arre)

Time to call idiots ‘idiots’ (J Mathrubootham)

Kashi Diary (Sharman Joshi)

The brilliant ad by Ashok Leyland for Women’s Day (You Tube)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

A short history of Bhang (Scroll)

Those 90 minutes cost me 40 L (Rural India)

The myth of a kinder, gentler Xi Jinping (Atlantic)

Netanyahu’s dilemma (ATimes)

The after life of Pablo Escobar (New Yorker)

Is the British Establishment finally finished? (Guardian)

How the Nazis were deprived of the Atomic Bomb (Smithsonian)

Trump’s India tilt (Dawn)

The double life of C V Raman (Swarajya)

Travelogue: 3 weeks in Europe (Team BHP)

How did Life Begin?Its Chemistry 101 but in space (Ars Technica)

The world according to Australian MasterChef host Gary Mehigan (NatGeo)

Gaaliyon ki Raasleela (Arre)

Shahjahanpur Diary (Outlook)

Obituary: Sridevi (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Justin Trudeau is being snubbed in India (Atlantic)

Trump’s Miss. Universe gambit (New Yorker)

Italy: Mussolini is now back in the mainstream (Guardian)

Imran Khan: The Zero Man (Cyril Almeida)

China scare spreads to New Zealand (ATimes)

10 Brilliant innovations by IITians (BI)

The reinvention of Bharatnatyam (Manu Pillai)

Road Trip: 8,500 km in a Tata Hexa 4*4 (TeamBHP)

No play, only work for Babus (Gossip Guru)

How to eat,pray and live in Amritsar (Nat Geo)

The last Ringal weaver of Jaiti (Rural India)

Office Emails and what they say about us (Arre)

What is real romance? (J Mathrubootham)

How to fight isolation when you work from home (Life Hacker)

The top 100 Hotels in the world (T&L)