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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 23 Feb,2018

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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 16 Feb, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The gory origins of Valentine’s Day (Smithsonian)

Modi is still BJP’s trump card (Outlook)

Nehru Vs Patel (Swapan Dasgupta)

Paki Valentines (Media Crooks)

Remembering the Berlin Wall (Time)

Algeria: The brutal world of sheep fighting (Guardian)

Putin’s dangerous game in Syria (Atlantic)

Chinese tourism rip-off row (ATimes)

Hotel Industry Vs AirBnB (Indrajit Gupta)

The Bike Share Wars heat up (Wired)

A Macedonian Tennis Racket (Slate)

Travelogue: Utah (Team BHP)

Who made Gujjus the food police of India? (Arre)

100% Spurious MBBS (J Mathrubootham)

How to make story time happen at any time (Off Spring)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 09 Feb, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The platinum touch of Nikhil Merchant (Wire)

Why Bollywood will never have its #MeToo moment (Arre)

Young India, Changing India : Ravi Viswanathan (Pari)

The lynching of Mashal Khan (Dawn)

Islamophobia in New Jersey (Guardian)

How New Zealand made Edmund Hillary (SBNation)

China’s latest move in Afghanistan (ATimes)

How Chinese students overseas are facing harsh life lessons (SCMP)

Tata Motors @ Auto Expo 2018 (Team BHP)

The growing legacy of Rahul Dravid (Scroll)

Modi’s unsoothing soothsayers (Gossip Guru)

Spoof: FBI warns of ‘American Dream’ scam (Onion)

How one note to Nehru changed the fate of J&K (BI)

The risk of lunar eclipse (J Mathrubootham)

Some advice I wish people had told me in my 20s (Thought Catalog)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 02 February, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Amazon rebuilt itself around artificial intelligence (Wired)

How GE went from American icon to astonishing mess (Bloomberg)

View from Pakistan on Padmaavat (Haroon Khalid)

Were the guests impressed? (Dawn)

The masterminds of Amit Shah (Gossip Guru)

Italy: Migrants are more profitable than drugs (Guardian)

Spoof: Guantanamo inmates cheer Trump (The Onion)

Felix Salmon and journalistic pay disparity (The Awl)

Profile: Vir Das (SCMP)

Alleppey: The Venice of the East (TeamBHP)

My Bambaiyya Hindi is better than your North Indian Hindi (Arre)

The only happy adult life is between marriage & first child (J Mathrubootham)

Don’t give your teens alcohol (Offspring Hacker)

On pole fitness (Mint)

Gandhi Smriti Diary (Outlook)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: January 25, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Raising kids in Delhi’s worsening air (New Yorker)

Facebook begins it’s downward spiral (Vanity Fair)

How to win Founders and influence everybody (Wired)

Venezuela’s Most Wanted (NYTimes)

The event that turned Pakistan (Nadeem Paracha)

Is Modi planning an early Lok Sabha elections this year? (Scroll)

The fallen homes of Anantapur (Rural India)

Being Deepika Padukone (Open)

Gainful Pakodas (Media Crooks)

The booming wig trade between India & Africa (Caravan)

Gossip: Sheila Dixit’s autobiography (Gossip Guru)

Tripura’s best kept travel secret (BI)

15 Lessons from the Dalai Lama (Brightside)

Diaries of a Lit Fest Rookie (Arre)

Who said youth is best? (J Mathrubootham)