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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Awesome Video of the Future: The Self-Driving Car (Tesla)

Freddie Mercury-The rockstar from Panchgani (Scroll)

Ramanujan:Encounter with the Infinite (Believer)

A Karnataka Billionaire’s wedding invite (NewsMinute)

A theory of Polytheism (IndiaFacts)

A Tattoo for the King (Atlantic)

What happened on Eastern Airlines Flight 980 (OutsideOnline)

Surviving the fall of Mosul (National Geographic)

Greenland is Melting (New Yorker)

Road Tripping through the African Savannah (TeamBHP)

A startup for Indian dentists (YS)

Has Samsung been fired? (Charles)

Nation is with Arnab Goswami (Anupam Kher)

How Kejriwal is wooing journalists (Gossip Guru)

The Delhi lawyer who filed a 125 Cr IT return (Quint)