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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How to write a Saas-Bahu saga (Caravan)

India’s deadly entrance exams (Shashi Tharoor)

How Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali (New Yorker)

The Architect who built the world’s tallest building (Chicago Mag)

What makes the Stanford rape case so unusual (Atlantic)

Lessons about China & Race from a detergent ad (New Yorker)

A Super Computer ready to mint money from Mexico’s stock market (Bloomberg)

Startup Story: CollarFolk (YS)

Gossip: Hooda meets Sonia (Gossip Guru)

10 Simple Self-Defence techniques everyone should know (BI)

5 Worst pieces of Nutrition Advice people believe (Poliquin)

Sairat’s Director’s ex-wife tells her story of abuse (Quint)

I captured the man who would be Pakistan’s Air Chief (NL)

The best beaches of South Goa (TeamBHP)

Jamun: The humble fruit (Scroll)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Arms Dealers:The Defence Dynasty (Open)

The Go-To App for any medical emergency (BI)

Something’s cooking in India’s Apple business (Charles)

Dawood Ibrahim: Catch me if you can (DailyO)

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? (Atlantic)

How we chose Nike (Phil Knight)

The great Swiss Bank heist (New Yorker)

Sunk: A legendary movie fiasco (Atavist)

The disgraced famous Ethics Professor (BuzzFeed)

Auto Review:Honda BR-V (Team BHP)

From the Mughal Court to Jawaharlal Nehru (Quint)

Amitabh Bachchan-The great survivor of Indian Politics (HP)

Rohan Murthy: Cultural Capitalist (Open)

The curious studio rituals of India’s artists (GQ)

On Marathi Movie Sairat (Jai Arjun)

Some off-beat reads for the weekend:

The myth of “Hindu Terror” (Rupa Subramanya)

How RSS saffronised Assam (Shekhar Gupta)

Scenes from the Bengal Election (Great Bong)

Amma & Didi (Outlook)

Congress:The Alice in Wonderland (Swarajya)

How NDTV creates false headlines (OpIndia)

Punjab now has the world’s biggest rooftop solar plant (BI)

A multi-million tailoring business from India (Forbes)

The # 1 Financial Regret for older Americans (Smart Money)

Secret tunnel found in Mexico (Smithsonian)

How democracy is changing Myanmar’s skyline (Guardian)

How to toast in 20 different languages (Life Hacker)

5 people who live by Wanderlust (NatGeo)

How Anant Ambani lost 108 kilos (BI)

Gossip:Tall Claims of Robert Vadra (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

My Seditious Heart (Arundhati Roy)

Kejriwal saving Sonia (Media Crooks)

How I dared to take on Wipro in a sexual harassment lawsuit (HP)

How Khan Academy plans to crack the Indian market (YS)

An encounter with Tej Pratap Yadav (Outlook)

Venezuela is falling apart (Atlantic)

Billionaires Vs Millionaires in Hawaii (BusinessWeek)

The gangsters on England’s doorstep (Guardian)

Inside Superstar Machine (Jezebel)

Private Schools,Painful Secrets (Boston Globe)

Marine Le Pen:France’s Next President? (Harpers)

Understanding Arun Shourie’s Modi riddle (OpIndia)

Shalini Saraswathi: No arms and legs,yet a marathoner (BI)

25 Breath Taking experiences you must have in India (NatGeo)

Gossip:The #1 person on Swamy’s hit list (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Pakistani Novelist Mohammed Hanif tests the limits (New Yorker)

Sri Sri Ravishankar’s hankering for Nobel Peace Prize (AOLF)

Congress must die (Media Crooks)

Subramaniam Swamy Vs Brajesh Mishra (Wire)

Dealing with parent’s mortality (Rohit Brijnath)

Broke,hungry and trendy (BuzzFeed)

Clinton Vs Trump:Persuasion Scores (Scott Adams)

ISI poisoned CIA Chief in Pakistan (WP)

Paul Manafort:Trump’s campaign genius (Slate)

Why so many smart people aren’t happy? (Atlantic)

How to automatically delete useless photos in WhatsApp (Labnol)

Gossip:Piyush Goyal’s damage control (Gossip Guru)

6 Food Souvenirs from Kolkata (Natgeo)

Book Review:The mind of Alfred Rosenberg,Hitler’s ideologue (Guardian)

Travelogues: Magnificent Madhya Pradesh (Team BHP)