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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What is the matter with Narayana Murthy? (Charles Assisi)

The Battle for Mosul (NYTimes)

Modi’s road to 2019 (Open)

Pranab Mukherjee ought to be condemned (Kuldip Nayar)

The Indira Gandhi trickery (Media Crooks)

A French Comic Book talks about dangers of Hindutva (Scroll)

The rise and fall of F. Lee Bailey (Town & Country)

Sufis in California (The Fader)

How can we stop algorithms telling lies? (Guardian)

Now Airbnb is wrecking mountain towns too (Long Reads)

Gossip: Pranab Mukherjee may lead Congress (Gossip Guru)

Trekking: Chadar 2017 (Team BHP)

Mumbai has a 66 Million Year Old Secret (BI)

Photo Essays: Love in Bombay (IQ)

India-Pakistan Diary (Kiran More)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Kabhi apni shakal dekhi hai? (Pakistan Tribune)

The rioting maids of Noida (Washington Post)

Mamata Bannerjee’s communal politics (Minhaz Merchant)

Why Silicon Valley is censoring itself in India (BuzzFeed)

New Lloyd Blankfein, Same Goldman Sachs (BusinessWeek)

How to sell a Billion $ myth like a French girl (Racked)

When will Earth get too hot for humans? (NYMag)

The Boy who started the Syrian War (Al Jazeera)

A Kingdom for  a Horse (VQR)

How the Mughals sold Bengaluru for 3L 330 years ago (ET)

You sacrifice, I win (J Mathrubootham)

Zia Ul Haq’s grandson goes to Hooters (NYTimes)

Music: 60 years of Bollywood in 4 chords (YouTube)

Auto Review: Isuzu MU-X 4*4 (TeamBHP)

Travelogue: Peshawar (Nat Geo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Inside South Kashmir (Rahul Pandita)

Real Estate : The Free Fall (Outlook)

Immediate withdrawal is the only wise move for India (Global Times)

Indian Israelis go ga-ga over Modi (Times of Israel)

Why India-Israel connect is unnerving our ‘secular liberals’ (Jaggi)

The brutal hazing culture of US Marines (NYTimes)

How date farming changed this farmer’s life (BI)

The sad,sexist past of Bengali cuisine (Mayukh Sen)

A Feni kind of love (IE)

How to get rid of mistresses in China (BBC)

Auto Talk: App Based Tyre Pressure Management System (TeamBHP)

30 Offbeat Indian Destinations (HP)

Why everyone needs a ‘gap year’ to see the world (NatGeo)

37 Etiquette Rules (Brightside)

Photos: Photographer of the Year Favorites (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The global tech investing Tsunami (Haresh Chawla)

Hong Kong is in trouble (NYTimes)

Shkreli’s hedge fund went from success to bust in 31 minutes (Bloomberg)

GST creates political risks for Modi (Jaggi)

Israel & India:  Instinctively Together (Open)

Lynching in Haryana (Caravan)

Apple’s new HQ (HBR)

Donald Trump: Troll in Chief (Atlantic)

Our contemporary notion of self-esteem (LongReads)

On zero-cost no-till natural farming (BI)

My life as an airport security guard (Guardian)

Ownership Review: Hyundai Creta (Team BHP)

Gossip: Congress’ Hindu Conscience (Gossip Guru)

Hiking: Stok Kangri Trek (Nat Geo)

Darjeeling Diary (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

How Uber’s CEO got fired (NYTimes)

Behind the MGR Seduction (Scroll)

The case of the Missing Rahul Gandhi (Jaggi)

Open letter by Sanjay Dixit to disgruntled IAS officers (Swarajya)

Pakistan-The undeclared Jihad Factory (EP Today)

How boy soldiers survived Boko Haram (NYTimes)

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man (Men’s Journal)

American truckers are debt slaves (USA Today)

Being Donald Trump-The life of an impersonator (Guardian)

Travelogue: Iceland (AFar)

Japan in 72 Hours (Nat Geo)

When did we lose the game to Pakistan? (Great Bong)

Darjeeling Tea: A Second Flush (Open)

Mumbai Diary (Aniruddha Roy)

Why India needs a library movement (Caravan)