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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How a Mckinsey Partner made millions off his maid (Caravan)

Putin’s billionaire daughters (Reuters)

Video:The Knife Intifada (Vimeo)

India re-energized (Samir Saran)

Modi’s power sector reforms are his most important (Swarajya)

The Disney Shanghai (Bloomberg)

Bihar debacle:The way forward for BJP (Tufail Ahmad)

The scheme to transform a remote island into a new Dubai (Guardian)

The Mafia has lost its code of silence (NYTimes)

Living and Dying on Airbnb (Medium)

India’s sacred cows and unholy politics (Shashi Tharoor)

The attempt to erase India’s Muslim past (Nadeem Paracha)

Startup: RentMyStay (YS)

Gaggan Anand:Top Chef (Forbes)

Why Tipu Sultan will always be remembered as a fanatic (Dailyo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How we valued value (Bibek Debroy)

Decoding the habits of the one-eyed intellectual (Tufail Ahmad)

The Sangh’s loosening grip on its fringe elements (Caravan)

Why Bihar polls are crucial for Sanjay Joshi (Scroll)

Is the clock turning back in J&K ? (Newslaundry)

The second most famous thing to happen to Hiroshima (R&K)

Burt Reynolds isn’t broke but he has a few regrets (Vanity Fair)

China’s One Child Calamity (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:Mana Pass (Team BHP)

A fintech startup called Rupeevest (YS)

How to get things done with Trello (Labnol)

Integrity Vs High Performance (Subroto Bagchi)

Revisiting Slumdog Millionaire(Koenraad)

Programmers should not call themselves engineers (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Spectre (New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Passion is over rated and goals are for losers (Scott Adams)

Can BJP make a comeback in Bihar (Swarajya)

How the Lotus will bloom in Bihar (Gossip Guru)

RSS:The Bhagwat Way (Open)

The end of innocence (Haresh Chawla)

The backstory of the SEBI-FMC merger (Forbes)

Interview with founder of T.G.I. Fridays (Edible Geography)

Official Review:Mahindra TUV 300 (Team BHP)

End of honeymoon period for foodtech startups? (YS)

How I met my co-founder (Rodinhoods)

How ISIS spread in the Middle East (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Titli (Wire)

How Yudhishtira won over the God of Death (DailyO)

12 Street Foods you have to eat in Bengaluru (BuzzFeed)

9 Phrases Smart People never use in a conversation (Forbes)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Goodbye Viru (Great Bong)

The incredible rise,fall and rise of Lalu Yadav (Saba Naqvi)

Sam Pitroda: The original quiz (Open)

M S Subbulakshmi: Misunderstood (Caravan)

Find the person behind the email address (Labnol)

Inside Stanford Business School’s sex scandal (Vanity Fair)

Travelogue:Mysore & Coorg (Team BHP)

A startup called Cityflo (YS)

Why don’t elephants get cancer (Wire)

Using story telling skills to be a super salesperson (FF)

The dark side of Durga Puja (DailyO)

The hypocrisy of Rajdeep Sardesai (OpIndia)

How we killed the Kaoboys (Swarajya)

How friendships change in adulthood (Atlantic)

Robert Mugabe and the destruction of Zimbabwe (New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Honey,I shrunk your bank branch (Haresh Chawla)

The Half-Deserted Streets of MysorePak Liberals (Sandeep)

Returning of Akademi Awards is politics by other means (Arun Jaitley)

No Godhra means No Modi (DailyO)

Piyush Pandey:Fortune Seller (Open)

The most dangerous political operative in America (Bloomberg)

The death and life of a great British pub (Guardian)

Visiting  a cattle market in Karachi (R&K)

China is not collapsing (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:5500 Kms,6 States & Butan (TeamBHP)

Durga Pujo Short Story:Mahishashur (Great Bong)

Muhuratmaza: A startup to book poojas online (YS)

Spoof:Bobby Jindal lies to his parents (The Onion)

The most mysterious star in our galaxy (Atlantic)

How school shootings catch on (Malcolm Galdwell)