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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

14 Companies that caught Ratan Tata’s eye (Quint)

Top lies spread by Indian media in August 2015 (OpIndia)

Let’s call Pakistan’s nuclear bluff (DailyO)

How Trump invented Trump (Bloomberg)

Why Naresh Goyal is smiling (Forbes)

Thai Commercials:Great at making people cry (Atlantic)

A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden (Guardian)

The fortune teller of Kabul (Guardian)

Travelogue:Chattisgarh Chronicles (TeamBHP)

13 untold truths about selling to schools in India (Rodinhoods)

Insurance startup Coverfox gets 14 M$ funding (YS)

Some tales of Muslim Conversion to Hindus (Wire)

Why you hate Google’s new logo (New Yorker)

Why drivers in China intentionally kill pedestrians they hit (Slate)

How to save on your car insurance premiums (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

1965 War:The Last Gentleman’s War (Maroof Raza)

Using microwave to make diamonds (Bloomberg)

The illusion of liquidity (Satyajit Das)

How Congress MP Vijay Darda forwarded his business interests (NL)

Hardik Patel has no future in Indian politics (DailyO)

Pervert Arnab (MediaCrooks)

Sugar Daddies Explained (GQ)

Dubai Real Estate (Outlook Business)

Auto Talk:The best SUV for Indian roads (Team BHP)

Travelogue:Sikkim (Team BHP)

The Emerging Markets Currency Rout (Project Syndicate)

Who was Shivaji? (Scroll)

Bulbul:An app for telling children stories (YS)

Why Modi chose Lohani to be Air India CMD (Gossip Guru)

16 Gorgeous shots of India in Hollywood movies (BuzzFeed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

17 Bucket List Items ruined by real images (This World Rocks)

Congress:From here to where? (Open)

Aditya Puri:The driving force behind HDFC Bank (Forbes)

How Ranvir Sena killed Dalits (Newslaundry)

India’s deadly cities (Project Syndicate)

The question of who truly freed India (Caravan)

The Science behind Yoga and Stress (Uplift)

The married Kama Sutra (New Yorker)

The story of e-Commerce logistics company gojavas (YS)

Mothers of ISIS (Huffington Post)

Modern humans have become super predators (Smithsonian)

BBC Bigots (Media Crooks)

Travelogue:Parambikulam Tiger Reserve (Team BHP)

Gossip:Why Mulayam went soft on Modi (Gossip Guru)

The most WTF moments of 2015 so far (Buzz Feed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The lies and politics behind GST (Op India)

What Gandhis don’t want you to know about Adil Shahryar (DailyO)

When I was a Prisoner of War in Pakistan (Outlook)

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success? (Harpers)

ISIS enshrines a theology of rape (NYTimes)

The unretiring Serena Williams (NYMag)

How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels (New Yorker)

Finland-The country most afraid of Russia (Harpers)

Spoof:Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha (Unreal Times)

Auto Ownership Review:Mercedes CLA45 (Team BHP)

A hanging in India (Shashi Tharoor)

Jinnah’s role in India’s first talkie Alam Ara (Scroll)

Mutual Fund Startup Scripbox gets funding of 16 Crores (YS)

Arnab’s hoax (Media Crooks)

Ashish Khetan:I leaked the Radia tapes (Newslaundry)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What lies behind the incredible rise & rise of Bharti Airtel (Wire)

Essar’s industry of influence (Caravan)

Sonia Gandhi:India’s most vicious politician (Media Crooks)

Sanjiv Goenka steps into the limelight (Forbes)

How Radhe Maa wore a mini skirt (DailyO)

On the Aarushi case (Jai Arjun)

My 51 years at Fortune magazine (Carol Loomis)

A Napa Valley in China (CS)

Auto Review:Our Hyundai Creta Diesel (Team BHP)

Nitish Kumar:Caught in the DNA web (OpIndia)

When does one say ‘No’ to business? (Subroto Bagchi)

Get Fare Estimates for Uber Taxis on Twitter (Labnol)

The bureaucrats who singled out Hiroshima for destruction (Atlantic)

Mumbai after Yakub’s hanging (Open)

Does the Congress party owe India reparations? (Newslaundry)