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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Letter from Pyongyang (New Yorker)

The politics of manual scavenging (Rahul Pandita)

How the aristocracy preserved their power (Guardian)

Trump: The first White President (Atlantic)

Coffee Naps (Vox)

Pakistan has been lying to itself (Dawn)

The magical tattoo artists of Cambodia (SCMP)

Road Trip: Spiti Valley (Team BHP)

Spoof: Rahul Gandhi’s AI Speech (Great Bong)

Why Modi recalled the Kamaraj Plan (Gossip Guru)

Spoof: Kim Jong Un addresses the UN (The Onion)

Little known facts about Asha Bhosale (BI)

Photos: Inside Hrithik Roshan’s house (HP)

Ganeshotsav and Mumbai’s Decibel Divide (Anil Dharker)

Who really invented the Periodic Table? (ThoughtCo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

La Ultra- The High (Mint)

Vinayaki-The female version of Lord Ganesha (Scroll)

The Case of Doklam (War On The Rocks)

The dilemma of being Nandan Nilekani (Charles Assisi)

How to get rich in Trump’s Washington (NYTimes)

Turkey’s Billion $ Hair Transplant Industry (TRT World)

Why Chinese investors are flocking to Johor,Malaysia (SCMP)

The last Nazi hunters (Guardian)

Cryptocurrency Cyber Crime soars (Bloomberg)

Thoughts on this season of Game of Thrones (Great Bong)

Driven: The World’s Best road (Team BHP)

Trekking: Snow Lake, Karakoram, Pakistan (Dawn)

Jaffna: The Haunted and the Hopeful (Open)

Bareilly Ki Diary (Outlook)

70 years of Indian Advertising (Mint)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Rajnikanth’s cult following in Japan (SCMP)

Why Narayan Murthy needs to relearn rules of the Murthy Doctrine (Rama Bijapurkar)

Dateline Xinadu (Outlook)

How the US can pressure Pakistan (Atlantic)

The Triple Talaq Judgement (Irfan Habib)

Drones and UAV swarming (IDR)

How a shadowy Imam created the Barcelona terror cell (NYTimes)

Life in Damascus (Guardian)

Carl Icahn’s failed raid on Washington (New Yorker)

In India, education is just a line in the bio-data (J Murali)

Do owning Holiday Homes make any sense? (Team BHP)

Startup Story: Unocoin- a Bitcoin market place (YS)

Spoof: American soldiers could thrive in Afghanistan (Onion)

Short Story: Twice Born Place (IQ)

How Aamir became fat (Rajeev Masand)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Doval Doctrine (Open)

Moving On… (Vishal Sikka)

Could there be a war between China & Japan? (Guardian)

The End of Sand (New Yorker)

Trump’s Business of Corruption (New Yorker)

Gymkhana Memberships-Worth It? (Team BHP)

How Bangalore has changed beyond recognition (Scroll)

The continued reign of Mohanlal (Mint)

Steve Bannon, Unrepentant (Prospect)

Rescuing King Cobras (BI)

Chinese racist video on India (Xinhua)

Glamping in Nagaland (Outlook)

Gossip: Amit ‘Defence’ Shah ? (Gossip Guru)

4 Fool Proof ways to spot a liar (Bright Side)

Toyota patented a device which will make objects invisible (Futurism)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

CAs share a DNA of trickery and perhaps fraud (Outlook)

Modi’s double edged farewell to VP Ansari (Jaggi)

Trump is horribly witless about the world (New Yorker)

Peter Thiel’s secretive company Palantir (Wired)

How Britain fell out of love with the free market (Guardian)

A Fraternity hazing death (NYTimes)

A Vietnamese kidnapping in Berlin (Forbes)

The complete history of the IBM PC (Ars Technica)

At the Mahindra Off Roading Academy (Team BHP)

Movie Review: When Harry met Sejal (Great Bong)

BJP’s plans to breach Fort Amethi (Gossip Guru)

How Pradeep John became TN’s Weatherman (BI)

Prateik Babbar on his drug addiction (Mid Day)

Aspirin’s 4000 year old history (Smithsonian)

Ownership Review: Vitara Brezza (Team BHP)