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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Demonetisation Demythified (Bibek Debroy)

My personal account of the Emergency (Yashwant Deshmukh)

How ‘Art of Living’ teacher saved hundreds of women from ISIS (Swarajya)

Why Arnab Quit (Media Crooks)

How Indians triumphed in America (Economist)

This Company wants to fix India’s sanitation problem (Forbes)

Indian women lift the lid on married life (Guardian)

A Biryani garnished with Hate (Jawed Naqvi)

Ted Talk: Confessions of a depressed comic (TED)

Finland gets rid of all school subjects in curriculum (BrightSide)

The Echo Chambers (Great Bong)

Spoof:Transcript of Sonia Gandhi’s interview (Unreal Times)

Watches: The most iconic Sports Chronos (GQ)

Full Text of Dr.Ambedkar’s last address to the Constituent Assembly (Wire)

Obituary:M G K Menon (BI)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Modi has already won the demonetization gamble (Manu Joseph)

Being Cyrus Mistry (Ashwin Sanghi)

How Trump took Middle America (Guardian)

China’s great leap backward (Atlantic)

Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs (New Yorker)

With the Kurdish Peshmerga on the road to Mosul (NYTimes)

More people die in India taking selfies than anywhere else (WP)

Why Catholic Churches have secret astronomical features (Longreads)

Sanjan Day-The Day Parsis escaped Islamists (MyInd)

Obituary:Lt.General S K Sinha (IE)

Travelogue:Dalmatian Coast,Croatia (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Brinda Karat next CPI (M) Chief (Gossip Guru)

On the Kohinoor Diamond (William Dalrymple)

6 Signs to recognize a Psychopath (Curejoy)

7 YouTube stars who became millionaires (YS)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Spoof:Trump united every American Intolerance (The Onion)

The amazing story of India’s first rocket launch (BI)

A Journey through Venezuela (New Yorker)

The plot to murder Gawker (Vanity Fair)

Sports:Quintuple Anvil Triathlon (NYTimes)

How one man robbed Las Vegas’ biggest Casino (Rolling Stone)

Travelogue:A week in Austria (Team BHP)

Goodbye Arnab Goswami (For Now) (Great Bong)

The Intellectual, yet Idiot (Nassim Taleb)

The choices you make today will be your biography tomorrow (Altucher)

How Devi Ahilyabai Holkar reignited cultural ethos (Creative India)

Steven Cohen model of making Billions is losing its appeal (FT)

Cassie set to become fastest person to visit every country (T&L)

Travel Food & Drink Apps (Nat Geo)

Gossip:How Abhishek Verma closes defense deals (FS)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Ford Foundation got Modi to back off (BS)

Modi: The Chief of Counterfeit Grief (Wire)

How Arnab changed Indian TV News (DailyO)

Clinton Presidency will be a disaster for India (Sunday Guardian)

Savarkar,Hindutva and Sangh Parivaar (Saaf Baat)

The Skype Sex Scam-A fortune built on shame (BBC)

Pankaj Mishra: Interpreter of Maladies (Rupa)

The Blind Astronomer of Nova Scotia (YouTube)

Close Door Buttons on Elevators don’t work (Quartz)

USHV-United Spectrum of Hindu Votes (5Forty3)

The shocking murder of Spain’s most flamboyant politician (Guardian)

Hugo Wood-The man who saved the Western Ghats (Mint)

A tribute to Major Somnath Sharma (BI)

Why Rita Bahuguna joined the BJP (Gossip Guru)

Best Cheap Vacation Countries to Visit (Thrill List)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The story of Tata Sons (Jehangir Pocha)

Mr.Marwari-Have you met Mr.Tata ? (Rodinhood)

The Coming Caste Wars (Outlook)

Electing Trump will be the biggest F*** You in history (Michael Moore)

The Spy who couldn’t spell (Guardian)

Inside the paranoid world of Julian Assange (BuzzFeed)

How I lost the race for UN Secretary General’s job (Shashi Tharoor)

Restorers lift the lid on Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem (Guardian)

Earth has lost more than half its animals since 1970 (Slate)

Travelogue:Iceland Road Trip (Team BHP)

Hrithik Roshan’s Watch Collection (GQ)

Is travel a good way to test a relationship? (NatGeo)

A language to unite mankind (New Yorker)

3 Ways to mess up your kids with money (Forbes)

Why I wake up at 4:22 am (LinkedIn)