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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

5 Stages of grief for Indian “liberals” (Great Bong)

The untold story of Dhoni’s business ventures (YS)

The Bangladeshi traffic jam that never ends (NYTimes)

Pakistan’s national baseball team arrives in Brooklyn (New Yorker)

Why decrease in crime statistics is bad news (Wire)

Mahatma Gandhi’s war on Indian Revolutionaries (DailyO)

The untold stories about Japanese war brides (WP)

Where Germans make peace with their dead (New Yorker)

The unbearable smallness of Benjamin Netanyahu (Atlantic)

Travelogue: Canyons and Deserts of USA (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Siddhu wants to go back to BJP (Gossip Guru)

Paki Comedian on why India-Pak should not go to war (BI)

Photos: Hrithik Roshan’s car collection (GQ)

Maharaja Ranjit Singh gets honored in French town (Outlook)

Why anything worth doing takes years (Jon)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Uri avenged (Quint)

Sword of the Brother Enemy (Shashi Tharoor)

Is Angel Investing in India a bubble? (Inc42)

Why political dynasties succeed in India (Caravan)

Cyrus Mistry’s elephant (Economist)

I used to be a human being (New Yorker)

How to raise successful kids without over parenting (TED)

Why Osho called Mother Teresa a Charlatan (HP)

The man behind Unoffical Subramaniam Swamy (NL)

Making sense of modern pornography (New Yorker)

The rich kids of Singapore  (GQ)

Roadtrip : Magical Norway (TeamBHP)

Startup Story: Tax Saver Niyo (YS)

Gossip: AAP sweeping Punjab (Gossip Guru)

Germany’s upside down house (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

US Presidential Elections: Reality turned inside out (Scott Adams)

The sacred Cow: An epic stature (Bibek Debroy)

The real story behind RCom-Aircel Merger (Jaggi)

Two unexpected phone calls in China (Meryl)

The atheist and the saint (Hindu)

Khan Devta : The Muslim God in Bastar’s Hindu Pantheon (NL)

Welcome to the Dark Net (Vanity Fair)

The free time paradox in America (Atlantic)

It’s tough being over 40 in Silicon Valley (BusinessWeek)

Why Pakistan’s market beats India’s and China’s (Forbes)

Why does the US give so much money to Israel? (Atlantic)

Auto Talk: Mitsubishi Pajero SFX (Team BHP)

Startup Story: Asset Vault (YS)

How a Chennai beggar became a Wales Engineer (BI)

Food Talk: Biryani is not Pulao (HP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam on the inter-linking of rivers (India CF)

The return of Anna Hazare (Open)

AAP’s mess in Punjab (DailyO)

Will the Cauvery be a political grave for the Congress (NL)

How did Ganesh Chaturthi become a Kolkata festival? (Scroll)

4 Reasons you should pay attention to ISRO’s successful launch (Wire)

Israel: A House Divided (Outlook)

Interview with Vladimir Putin (Bloomberg)

Why Ariana Huffington left the Huffington Post (Vanity Fair)

The story of how Theranos imploded (Vanity Fair)

How the NYT Restaurant Critic writes his reviews (New Yorker)

Driven: Audi A4 (TeamBHP)

3 Indian Mobile apps that are transforming lives (BI)

Photos: What is Aleppo?This is Aleppo (Atlantic)

Gossip: Anurag Thakur stinged (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How to legally own another person (Nassim Taleb)

The Mysore Sandal Soap turns 100 (IndiaCF)

The good,bad and ugly of Reliance Jio (Wire)

The “sharing economy” is dead (Fast Company)

Will Amazon kill Fedex? (BusinessWeek)

Life Lessons from Infosys’s Kris Gopalakrishnan (FF)

Yuja Wang and the art of performance (New Yorker)

The paradox of Syria’s civil war (NYTimes)

Why Nehru refused a permanent seat at the UN (Wire)

Driven:Jaguar F-Pace (TeamBHP)

Trek to the Valley of Flowers (TeamBHP)

Gossip:400 Laborers impressed by PM (Gossip Guru)

A Pakistani looks back on her time in India (BI)

Corrupt Kejriwal (Media Crooks)

This Mangalore College has absurd new rules (BuzzFeed)