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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What does “Happy New Year” even really mean? (Smithsonian)

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s Empire of Tech (Fortune)

King of Clickbait (NewYorker)

The tragedy of the American military (Atlantic)

How to get drunk right (Chronicle Of Higher Education)

Cochin Dealer sells me old BMW (TeamBHP)

2015:The year of the dollar danger (Telegraph)

2015: Europe’s Make-Or-Break Year (Joschka Fischer)

India’s Private Equity last year was only half of WhatsApp (QZ)

Whats a business idea with small investment and good profit? (Quora)

Life and Legacy of BG Verghese (Newslaundry)

Germany’s Bollywood affair (ForbesIndia)

Why Tipu Sultan was a false hero (Dailyo)

The secret to learning a foreign language (Time)

Leela Samson gives a free pass to abuse Hindu Gods (IndiaFacts)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Chetan Bhagat:The prince of pulp (Open)

The real Santa’s workshop (Atlantic)

Is Macau turning a flush into a bust? (Forbes)

Dump Rahul,split or die (Firstpost)

Veer Savarkar-The man who thought Gandhi was a sissy (Economist)

How women may have shaped men’s penises (Smithsonian)

Did you hear about the one about North Korea (Digg)

The ban on Christmas (TimeTravelBritain)

Leaked:Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Inbox (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Kaziranga National Park (TeamBHP)

The Arab world’s vanishing Christians (Project Syndicate)

Movie Review:PK (GreatBong)

How to write a successful blog (Labnol)

Stuck in 1947-Pakistan’s 68 years of solitude (Dawn)

Film Magazine Archives (JaiArjun)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How to save money while shopping online in India (Labnol)

Shekhar Gupta:Capital Reporter (Caravan)

The Gopichand Factory (Open)

Dilip Kumar:Peshawar 92 years ago (Outlook)

How M&M came to dominate the Indian automotive industry (ForbesIndia)

ISIS:The inside story (Guardian)

Welcome to Paradise (Telegraph)

The Chinese Century (Joseph Stieglitz)

Afghanistan:The making of a Narco State (Rolling Stone)

An open letter to Suhel Seth (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:The Jaisalmer Desert Festival (TeamBHP)

The untold story of Pakistan’s blasphemy law (Dawn)

M K Raghavendra on the new Bollywood (JaiArjun)

What I learnt from 10 years of IT career (Rodinhoods)

Parsis:The fear of extinction (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Meet the King of Online Gambling (Forbes)

Is Venture Capital killing India’s startups? (Mahesh Murthy)

Divesh Makan:The Spider of Silicon Valley (Forbes)

Power and persuasion on the Frontier (Open)

Ram Madhav:The Pracharak is going places (Outlook)

GrowthStory’s Billion Dollar dreams (ForbesIndia)

The incredible shrinking incomes of young Americans (Atlantic)

The world cracks down on the Internet (NewYorker)

Why young Germans are joining the ISIS (Der Spiegel)

How not to get away with murder (DMagazine)

Owner Review:Mahindra Thar (TeamBHP)

Why every Indian should visit Pakistan (Dawn)

Remembering Deven Varma (JaiArjun)

Who is afraid of Elon Musk’s batteries? (Bloomberg)

Top 10 Mind Hacks to help you save money (LifeHacker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Angela Merkel became the world’s most powerful woman (NewYorker)

Congress politicians:Out of sight (Open)

Smriti Irani:She rings the school bells (Outlook)

Left,right and Tejpal (Newslaundry)

How a triad scripted the turnaround for DSP Blackrock (ForbesIndia)

Spicejet likely to go the way of Kingfisher (MoneyLife)

Prospering in India’s aviation market (Economist)

The death and rebirth of the American Mall (Smithsonian)

Anita Sakeesian:The gaming industry’s greatest adversary (BusinessWeek)

The ghosts of Bhopal (TorontoStar)

The inside story of the withdrawal of Tarun Tejpal’s invitation to TOI Litfest (UnrealTimes)

2014:Best enthusiast cars in India (TeamBHP)

The geopolitical impact of cheap oil (Feldstein)

Islamabad is dysfunctional (Irfan Husain)

What is it like to make millions trading? (Quora)