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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An open letter by a cop to those opposing death penalty to Yakub (Op)

Shaming of the British Empire (Open)

The last resort for an Indian Cancer patient (Scroll)

Is this India’s worst real estate nightmare? (Mint)

Making money off the lazy economy (FF)

The singular mind of Terry Tao (NYTimes)

Bobby Jindal and the trouble with Louisiana (New Yorker)

Why Cecil was such an important lion (Slate)

A Pakistani teen made $200,000 in a month as a professional gamer (Bloomberg)

Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others (Smithsonian)

Why Mullah Omar’s death could be a nightmare for Afghanistan (Atlantic)

The worst thing you can do in a job interview (Forbes)

BJP and Modi’s horoscopes (Gossip Guru)

Auto Review:Maruti S-Cross (TeamBHP)

How to get the best finance deal while buying a car (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Indians took over the Antwerp diamond trade (Scroll)

A portrait of Yakub Memon (Open)

What about those startups that don’t have war chests (FF)

The inside story of Mission Yemen (Forbes)

How Indian Air Force made history with the Kargil war (DailyO)

The downfall of Gujarat’s last Rajput ruler (Caravan)

There is no stopping the Trump show (Atlantic)

How trees calm us down (New Yorker)

The mysterious sleeping villages of Kazakhstan (BuzzFeed)

The myth of the ethical shopper (Huffington Post)

Travelogue:Divegar and Hari Hareshwar (Team BHP)

Auto Review: BMW 320d (Team BHP)

The horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse (Project Syndicate)

A genomics-based diagnostics startup called MedGenome (YS)

On Sholay, 40 years later (Wire)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret (Guardian)

Kota System: 600 Crore Coaching Industry (Open)

The incredible journey of Sania Mirza (Newslaundry)

60 quotes by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Money Excel)

India’s super 50 companies (Forbes India)

The battle for the BBC (Guardian)

Travelogue:Himachal in a Renault Duster (TeamBHP)

How I exited Mobile2Win India (Alok Kejriwal)

On Bobby “I am not Indian” Jindal (Great Bong)

Beyond Pluto (Scroll)

A startup called Gymer (Your Story)

What’s so special about ‘Baahubali’ (Forbes)

India’s newest superstar is a film director (Wire)

How to get rich in the new Cuba (New Yorker)

What open marriage taught one man about feminism (NYMag)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

7 Intelligent Fanatics from India (Fundoo Professor)

How ICICI Pru Life is screwing its customers (Capital Mind)

Value investors get flak for investing in “toll bridges” (RJ)

How Maggi is bad for us but good for UK (Newslaundry)

Only 2% of India is actually middle-class (Scroll)

Piketty:Germany has never repaid its debts (Wire)

P V Narasimha Rao’s Kashmir master stroke (Outlook)

Tibet after Dalai Lama (Project Syndicate)

The Mob’s IT deparment (Bloomberg)

Reaction of Indian Celebrities to Greece referendum (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Tirthan Valley,Himachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

What the stone edicts of Ashoka tell us (Caravan)

Are Lalit Modi’s days numbered? (Gossip Guru)

Real Estate startup eyeing 100 Crore sales in 2nd year of operations (YS)

Is getting “ripped” worth it? (Quora)