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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Shoes Post (Beatzo)

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story (Open)

The case for peace with Iran (Jeffrey Sachs)

How Steven Seagal became Kremlin’s envoy (Buzzfeed)

Gossip: Advani to be NDA’s Presidential candidate in 2017 (GossipGuru)

Ratan Tata is now an angel investor (Outlook)

What the trial of Manmohan Singh must address (Caravan)

800 Conversions that never happened (News Laundry)

Kidnapped at the border (New Yorker)

Facebook Wall:CSK valued at 5L (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (TeamBHP)

Deepinder Goyal: Zomato founder (Forbes India)

Taking stock of 75 years of McDonalds (Smithsonian)

100 years after the Armenian genocide (Atlantic)

How the most daring plan of WWI turned into a military disaster (I09)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Rahul Bhatia: High Flier (Open)

Subhash Runwal:Building a 1 Billion $ fortune (Forbes)

Why ITC and L&T’s CEOs are loath to leave (Outlook)

How vague prose can muddle court rulings (Caravan)

Why BJP bhakts love to hate NDTV (Newslaundry)

Kerala:The crises within the CPI (M) (Socialism)

In Pictures:Arun Jaitley doing things (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Mukutmanipur (TeamBHP)

Obama’s failed Afghan peace strategy (Brahma Chellaney)

The Vietnam War, as seen by the Victors (Atlantic)

The gold rush at the top of the world (New Yorker)

How Obama abandoned Iraq (Slate)

How to end India’s tax terrorism (Bloomberg)

Elan – The first Hindi film to have invisibility device (JaiArjun)

Knuckle cracking mystery solved (Independent)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The horrible ordeal of passengers on Jet Airways flight 9W 542 (Travel Mango)

The story of one of Israel’s greatest spies (Atavist)

Patna Roughcuts (Amitava Kumar)

Congress: Transition Trauma (Open)

The Assistant Economy (Dissent)

Is Hillary Clinton any good at running for President? (New York)

Who are the Yemeni Houthis? (Atlantic)

Q&A with Miss Malini (Forbes)

The Xiomi business model (ForbesIndia)

Auto Review: Renault Lodgy (TeamBHP)

Facebook Wall:Reactions to Nehru spying on Bose’s family (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Lucknow,the lost city of the Nawabs (TeamBHP)

Movie Review: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (Great Bong)

Incredible Art using Google Drawings (Labnol)

Todd Statman and the funky Indian films of the 70s (Jai Arjun)

Long Long weekend ahead on account of Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday.

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Last chance for Ukraine and Europe (George Soros)

The coming emerging market debt squeeze (Project Syndicate)

The rise and fall of the Drexel Empire (Bloomberg)

The deadly global war of sand (Wired)

The point of being Raza (Open)

Cafe Samovar: That 60’s Vintage (Outlook)

The cult of Kejriwal (Caravan)

How Reliance is taking over Indian media (Tehelka)

How Times Now shamed the nation (Newslaundry)

How Edelweiss built a business for the long run (Forbes)

How the Gluteus became Maximus (Atlantic)

Dear Dairy,I hate you (New Yorker)

Crossing your fingers could reduce pain (Smithsonian)

Travelogue:Camping in the Himalayas (TeamBHP)

How to fake your location in Google Chrome (Labnol)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Not such an English game anymore (ESPN)

How Ameera Shah powered the rise of Metropolis Healthcare (Forbes)

Re-examining the Vajpayee legacy (SwarajyaMag)

Yemen and beyond (Al Jazeera)

The real Singapore model (Project Syndicate)

A place called Bhatkal (Open)

Moscow:Opulent,overwhelming and pulsing with power (NG)

Sri Lanka: The two faces of paradise (Afar)

Facebook Wall:Team India bows out of World Cup (Unreal Times)

Travelogue: Solo drive to the North East-all 7 sisters (Team BHP)

The World’s most dangerous trail (Smithsonian)

The refreshing bare beauty of Tel Aviv (NYMag)

Bill Ackman’s fight against Herbalife (Vanity Fair)

How the mixed population of Cape Town saw SA lose (Caravan)

The Anti-Modi Christian Agenda-Part 2 (Media Crooks)