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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Mufti Mohammed Sayeed: The Collaborator (Caravan)

India looks out (Arun Jaitley)

Bangalore’s Croremangala (Outlook)

The fight for Mosul (New Yorker)

The boy who scored a 1000 runs (Open)

In praise of idleness (Bertrand Russell)

Exploring the Australian Outback (Team BHP)

Why am I so sad about having a boy? (NYMag)

A Hindu soldier’s Aurangzeb (Wire)

The fault in our startups (Haresh Chawla)

How General Jacob got Pakistan to surrender (DailyO)

Mother Teresa as we didn’t know her (OpIndia)

Gossip: Amma is angry (Gossip Guru)

On tenacity in entrepreneurship (A VC)

2016 feels like its the Year of the Bear (Bloomberg)

Some off beat reads to begin the New Year with:

India through slogans (Open)

What do Indians eat? (Forbes)

The Naayak as Gaayak (Jai Arjun)

Abolish Article 370 (Anupam Kher)

Why 2016 will be a difficult year for Congress (Swarajya)

The True Story of Roland the Farter (Atlas)

The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas (Vanity Fair)

Auto Review:Tata Storme (Team BHP)

Richard Dawkin’s Law Delusion (Project Syndicate)

On turning 40 (Great Bong)

Bangladesh’s Dhakeshwari Temple (Scroll)

Mindtree’s commandments for entrepreneurial success (YS)

The intimate pleasures of biography (Open)

Who’s afraid of Mein Kampf? (Atlantic)

The well deserved fall of Rahm Emmanuel (New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam (Guardian)

Can Manu Prakash save the world? (New Yorker)

My experience as a Uber driver (TeamBHP)

Saudi Arabia’s phony war on terror (Brahma)

The Devil and Jose Mourinho (Guardian)

The great Republican revolt (Atlantic)

How I built a 1C a year company and led it to bankruptcy (Rodinhood)

How a 25 year old is changing the celebrity gossip industry (BuzzFeed)

Royal Mysore Heritage Walks (YS)

Don’t confuse your mid-life crisis with entrepreneurship (Subroto Bagchi)

The Tharoor’s family Amul Journey (Shashi Tharoor)

Travelogue:The Dak Bungalow Trail (TeamBHP)

Movie Review:Star Wars,The Force Awakens (Great Bong)

Gossip:Advani wants to be President (Gossip Guru)

Some more Delhi gossip (Fashion Scandal)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I worry about Muslims (Mohammed Hanif)

Secrets of the Gujaratis,world’s best business people (Economist)

Why politicians play the ‘victim’ card (Jaggi)

How Rahul Gandhi lied about what happened in Assam (OpIndia)

How Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel was taken down (Atlantic)

The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh (New Yorker)

Illegal in Iceland (Smithsonian)

My dad was Darth Vader (Jai Arjun)

Unpregnant (Globe & Mail)

Maruti Baleno:Official Review (Team BHP)

The great Greek Bank robbery (Yanis Varoufakis)

The $500 Million battle over Disney’s princesses (Bloomberg)

A startup called HealthAssure (YS)

Why India should honor Taslima Nasrin (India Facts)

Why American Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas (Atlantic)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Tempest: Prannoy Roy of NDTV (Caravan)

How Sandhya Jain broke the story of National Herald (MindNet)

Ramanujan:Encounter with the Infinite (Believer)

Profile: Welspun’s B K Goenka (Forbes)

Chennai:The deluge and the deluded (Open)

Islamophobia in America (Vox)

Trudeau’s Canada again (NYTimes)

Ownership Report:Hyundai Creta Diesel AT (TeamBHP)

Startup Story:MonkVyasa (YS)

Why did snakes foresake their legs? (Wire)

The ROI of Business Story Telling (FF)

Why is Rahul Gandhi so angry (DailyO)

Where are the Muslims on Hindi TV? (Newslaundry)

Gossip:Namo has Bose’s files (GossipGuru)

Facebook Wall:Salman Khan’s acquittal (Unreal Times)