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Weekend Mega Linkfest: May 20,2016

Some off-beat reads for the weekend:

The myth of “Hindu Terror” (Rupa Subramanya)

How RSS saffronised Assam (Shekhar Gupta)

Scenes from the Bengal Election (Great Bong)

Amma & Didi (Outlook)

Congress:The Alice in Wonderland (Swarajya)

How NDTV creates false headlines (OpIndia)

Punjab now has the world’s biggest rooftop solar plant (BI)

A multi-million tailoring business from India (Forbes)

The # 1 Financial Regret for older Americans (Smart Money)

Secret tunnel found in Mexico (Smithsonian)

How democracy is changing Myanmar’s skyline (Guardian)

How to toast in 20 different languages (Life Hacker)

5 people who live by Wanderlust (NatGeo)

How Anant Ambani lost 108 kilos (BI)

Gossip:Tall Claims of Robert Vadra (Gossip Guru)

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Mega Linkfest:May 13,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

My Seditious Heart (Arundhati Roy)

Kejriwal saving Sonia (Media Crooks)

How I dared to take on Wipro in a sexual harassment lawsuit (HP)

How Khan Academy plans to crack the Indian market (YS)

An encounter with Tej Pratap Yadav (Outlook)

Venezuela is falling apart (Atlantic)

Billionaires Vs Millionaires in Hawaii (BusinessWeek)

The gangsters on England’s doorstep (Guardian)

Inside Superstar Machine (Jezebel)

Private Schools,Painful Secrets (Boston Globe)

Marine Le Pen:France’s Next President? (Harpers)

Understanding Arun Shourie’s Modi riddle (OpIndia)

Shalini Saraswathi: No arms and legs,yet a marathoner (BI)

25 Breath Taking experiences you must have in India (NatGeo)

Gossip:The #1 person on Swamy’s hit list (Gossip Guru)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: May 06,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistani Novelist Mohammed Hanif tests the limits (New Yorker)

Sri Sri Ravishankar’s hankering for Nobel Peace Prize (AOLF)

Congress must die (Media Crooks)

Subramaniam Swamy Vs Brajesh Mishra (Wire)

Dealing with parent’s mortality (Rohit Brijnath)

Broke,hungry and trendy (BuzzFeed)

Clinton Vs Trump:Persuasion Scores (Scott Adams)

ISI poisoned CIA Chief in Pakistan (WP)

Paul Manafort:Trump’s campaign genius (Slate)

Why so many smart people aren’t happy? (Atlantic)

How to automatically delete useless photos in WhatsApp (Labnol)

Gossip:Piyush Goyal’s damage control (Gossip Guru)

6 Food Souvenirs from Kolkata (Natgeo)

Book Review:The mind of Alfred Rosenberg,Hitler’s ideologue (Guardian)

Travelogues: Magnificent Madhya Pradesh (Team BHP)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:April 29,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why builders won’t cut prices (Jaggi)

Narayan Murthy’s letter to his daughter (Office Chai)

Nestle’s Half-Billion $ Noodle Debacle in India (Fortune)

How Uber conquered London (Guardian)

The secret shame of Middle Class Americans (Atlantic)

Iceland’s water cure (NYTimes)

Literature and Leadership (Havard)

Auto Review: Skoda Superb (Team BHP)

Startup Story: SaffronStays (YS)

What 10 days of Vipassana taught me (DailyO)

Gossip:Amma is angry with BJP (Gossip Guru)

Where to eat,shop,sightsee in Pondicherry (NatGeo)

Diet:In praise of dal-rice (Rujuta Diwekar)

Bollywood: Kangana Ranaut’s ex spills the beans (DNA)

How far have you come? (Om Malik)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:April 22,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Islam created Europe (Atlantic)

How Korea cleared its streets for the 1988 Olympics (AP)

Travelogue: Blessed in Bhutan (Team BHP )

Patriotism in Bastar (Outlook)

The design flaw of Taj Mahal (Open)

Air quality worst at 7 am in India(Newslaundry)

Poster boy Nikesh Arora:Overpaid and Underperforming? (Quartz)

The political desperation of Subhash Chandra (Gossip Guru )

Dr.Rao’s Rs.50 invention gives voice back to throat cancer patients (BI)

Startup Story : Cleartax (YS)

Kangana’s shocking emails to Hrithik Roshan (Quint)

The Kohinoor was never a gift (Scroll)

Our underwear,ourselves (New Yorker )

Volunteer holidays you can sign up for (Natgeo)

Weirdest reasons why Indians reject arranged marriage proposals (Dailyo)