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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The quiet rise of BSP in UP (Open)

The Rs.41,000 Crore trick called IMFL (Outlook)

Financiers fight over the American Dream (New Yorker)

The Mysteries of Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple (Mint)

Rajiv Gandhi Trust’s land grab (Swarajya)

Billionaire Robert Merer’s war on Mainstream Media (Guardian)

Trump,Putin and the new Cold War (New Yorker)

Veer Savarkar Unplugged (Mint)

The case for going to bed at 2:30 am (Vox)

Trump’s impact on Indian Marriage Market (Scroll)

Travelogue: Jungle Mahal,WB (TeamBHP)

Pakistan’s romance with Bollywood (DailyO)

The Magician from Madras (IQ)

The best India holidays to take in March (NatGeo)

18 Incredible things you can do only in Dubai (Brightside)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Maniac Killers of the Bangalore IT Department (Bloomberg)

The Fortune Teller (IQ)

The ‘other America’ (Guardian)

Facebook Algorithm is watching you (Atlantic)

Crisis in Indian Higher Education (Open)

Let your children be bored (WeForum)

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a global Islamist (Tufail Ahmed)

How did Gandhi’s murderers vanish? (Daily Mail)

Auto Talk: 2017 Honda City Facelift (Team BHP)

Arnab’s Moneybag (Gossip Guru)

On NDTV’s Ravish Kumar (Media Crooks)

Profile: Fearless Nadia (BI)

The Courtesan who inspired Pondicherry’s official emblem (NatGeo)

Bengali Macho (Sandip Roy)

Fake My Trip (Reiner Riedler)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

BJP in pole position in UP (5Forty3)

Where are India’s Jerry Maguires? (ET)

How Navinder Singh Sarao was scammed out of $ 50 Million (Bloomberg)

GS replaces 600 Equity Traders with 200 Computer Engineers (MIT)

How the BHIM app was built in only 3 weeks (YS)

How Anna Nicole Smith became America’s punchline(Buzzfeed)

NYTimes claws its way to the future  (Wired)

Telegraph journalist on his sacking (DailyO)

Travelogue:Epic 2 weeks in New Zealand (TeamBHP)

Auto Talk: Toyota Fortuner Vs Competition (TeamBHP)

Don’t waste your time on networking events (HBR)

Going part time with your startup (Wharton)

Mukesh Ambani cracks a joke (FE)

Rahul Gandhi gets it (Gossip Guru)

The best resorts in Maldives (Lux Travel)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Indian e-commerce has hit a fork in the road (Haresh Chawla)

How the Finance Ministry pressurized Banks to help Mallya (IT)

Shah Rukh Khan-The Khanate without end (Outlook)

Trump Week One (Great Bong)

The Obama-Trump truce is already over (Atlantic)

How to disagree (Paul Graham)

History: Kalmykia’s long goodbye (Open Democracy)

Why Hollywood as we know it is over (Vanity Fair)

How Israeli Tech Firms do business in Saudi Arabia (Bloomberg)

Ownership Report: Land Rover Discovery Sport (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Delhi Tycoon & Modi (Gossip Guru)

The importance of Basant Panchami (Swarajya)

The orangutans of Indonesia (NatGeo)

How a 26 year old overcame severe depression (BI)

Why it’s plain stupid to buy a house in India (HP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Punjab looks to kick out the Badals (Caravan)

The world according to The Donald (Brahma)

Tiger Parents,beware ! (Economist)

The heroism of incremental care (Dr.Atul Gawande)

How demonetisation affected the Hawala trade (Swarajya)

A CEO Dilemma (Alok Kejriwal)

Why people in UP vote along caste lines (Scroll)

Religious Zealots throttle Kashmiri women (Wire)

Thailand’s “Banana Pancake” Trail (BootsNail)

Every successful relationship is successful for exact same reasons (Qz)

How to be a genius (James Altucher)

First World Yoga Names in Bollywood (Mint)

Gossip: Modi’s Basic Income Scheme (Gossip Guru)

Fascinating History of Rasgulla (BI)

How the 6th Punjab Battalion saved Poonch (Hindu)