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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

British, India and Tea (Maddy)

Bastar: Proposing a radical solution (Jerry Rao)

Death of the Telegram (IE)

Xenophobia in Europe (Rafia Zakaria)

How Trump gave up on his border wall (New Yorker)

Ernest Hemingway, the investor (Paris Review)

The race to build the world’s first sex robot (Guardian)

The 80 year old Chinese runway model (GQ)

Ownership Report: A year with the Toyota Fortuner (TeamBHP)

Made-in-Chennai tiffin box becomes a hit in the US (YS)

Congress top guns looking to join BJP (Gossip Guru)

What the photos we post on Social Media say about us (Brightside)

The noisy Indian traveler (Anand Kumar)

On being away from home (Manasi Mittal)

In Photos: Vinod Khanna (Outlook)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Who lost Kashmir? (Open)

The real problem in Kashmir-Islamisation (Minhaz Merchant)

Mark Zuckerberg just signed the death warrant for smartphones (Futurism)

What Ukraine’s Jews fear (NYTimes)

Sonu spanking once again (Great Bong)

Teacher sells her jewellery for a better classroom (BI)

Bollywood & the business of secularism (Hindu)

History : Sheikh Abdullah-The first stone pelter of Kashmir (NewsnViews)

Lenin & the Russian Spark (New Yorker)

Lack of grace while traveling (J Mathrubootham)

To Mangalore in an Ambassador (Team BHP)

24 Hours in Tokyo (Lux Travel)

Kid packing essentials for family vacation (T&L)

Gossip: Why SM Krishna joined BJP (Gossip Guru)

16 Traditional Mango Recipes (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The Shah of political chess (Outlook)

The famous Scottish statue and it’s traffic cone hat (Mental Floss)

The Syria Catastrophe (N plus 1)

The story of Wangdi Norbu (IQ)

The deadly downside of marathons (Atlantic)

On modernist architecture (Roger Scruton)

Warren Hastings-The man who loved India (Open)

PNC Menon- Billionaire by Chance (Forbes)

Kashmir,Profits, Traitors (Media Crooks)

Ownership Review: Mercedes Benz  GLE 250D (Team BHP)

Travelogue: Cental India (Team BHP)

The inspiring story of fitness instructor Rakesh Udiyar (YS)

Kolkata taxi driver runs 2 schools & an orphanage (BI)

Vadra from Moradabad? (Gossip Guru)

The weird and wonderful Mumbai Falooda (NatGeo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How the Dalai Lama escaped 58 years back (IE)

The arrival of Yogi Adityanath (Great Bong)

Why did Nehru refuse merger with Nepal (Post Card)

The Portuguese Inquisition in Goa (India Facts)

Lahore: Paradise Lost (Daily Times)

Take a course in World’s Best Universities for free (WEForum)

Jerks & the Startups they ruin (NYTimes)

Future of loneliness- Internet Isolation (Guardian)

The Hill & the Mountain (Bill Aitken)

Building in the shadow of our own destruction  (Longreads)

Startup Story : BVP (YS)

Eggs,Cheese & Toast – Mumbai style (NYTimes)

Life Rules (Bob Lefsetz)

Travelogue: Iceland (Team BHP)

Gossip: Rats chewed Crores (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

If you aren’t rich by 45, you might as well give up (BI)

Is fat killing you, or is it sugar? (New Yorker)

5 stages of grief for Lutyen’s media (Great Bong)

The untold story behind Indira Gandhi’s decision to release 93,000 Pakistani Prisoners of War (Wire)

India’s first transgender school (Atlantic)

The religion that the Iranian Mullahs fear the most (Swarajya)

The Curse of the Bahia Emerald (Wired)

How Scott Adams got hypnotized by Trump (BusinessWeek)

Michelangelo & Sebastino (1843)

The sad economics of Internet Fame (Fusion)

Geopolitics: China encircling India (IE)

The Art of the Deal with the Taliban (NYTimes)

The Yoga Lesson (New Yorker)

Rahul Gandhi’s Oxford Venture (Gossip Guru)

Travelogue: Patiala Guide (NatGeo)