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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

On singing the National Anthem (Madhu Kishwar)

How Amol Yadav built an aircraft on his terrace (Better India)

Startup Story:Mast Kalandar (YS)

How politicians burnt down Jhajjar (Dailyo)

Hotel JNU-A shock ballad (Swarajya)

What an Aadhar-enabled future may look like (Wire)

Top 10 reasons why Mother Teresa was a fraud (Libertarian Republic)

The amazing adventures of Sue in Tibet (BBC)

The ISIS story starts with Paul Bremer (Boston Globe)

The Amazon Tax (Stratechery)

High-Tech Coolhunting (Medium)

In Tech, small fish almost always eat the big fish (Stanford)

The Art of the Smear (Bloomberg)

Meet the man who is Rajat Gupta’s antithesis (Scroll)

Photos:India’s last head hunter tribe (BuzzFeed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Chimpanzees believe in God (Independent)

Aadhar Bill is the basis of a revolution (Nandan Nilekani)

How Ranveer Singh made it (Caravan)

Real reform by the NDA Govt (Swarajya Mag)

Dehradun student creates ‘Uber for scrap dealers’ (Better India)

Baptism by fire for the Piramal siblings (Forbes)

The incredible rise and fall of fracking King Aubrey McClendon (Bloomberg)

The Obama Doctrine (Atlantic)

Winston Churchill’s 12,000 Pound Bet (Telegraph)

The man who sold the Eiffel Tower.Twice (Smithsonian)

Life & Death in the App Store (The Verge)

How we shut down our startup before first anniversary (Rodinhood)

Auto Review: Mahindra KUV 100 (Team BHP)

Startup creates antidote to nasty hangovers (YS)

Gossip:Congress low on funds (Gossip Guru)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Immaculate Conception of Reliance Jio (Wire)

P V Narasimha Rao – The outsider who dared (Open)

The man who made millions off the Afghan War (New Yorker)

Bearing witness to the rise of ISIS (Jezebel)

The Dog Thief Killings (R&K)

Russian Debt Collectors go medieval (BusinessWeek)

Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech at JNU (Scroll)

India’s pride:Lt. Col.Sophia Qureshi (Better India)

Meet the RSS affiliate Muslim Rashtriya Manch (Newslaundry)

How to build a profitable Unicorn (YS)

Travelogue:Sri Lanka (TeamBHP)

Walking the Chadar Trail (Traveller Mindset)

Nostalgia with Amitabh Bachchan (Quint)

I tried a bike taxi today (Office Chai)

John Oliver exposes Donald Trump (YouTube)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How a couple built a 300 acre private wild life sanctuary (Better India)

Dear Investors,so you want to take Diversity seriously? (Mitch Kapor)

Why I dread the RSS (DailyO)

Open letter to Barkha Dutt from a Social Media Sanghi Troll (OpIndia)

Justice Srikrishna:The beast in us is unleashed (Outlook)

A Chennai entrepreneur in Latin America (Forbes)

The case for quitting your job without a backup plan (Quartz)

How America made Donald Trump unstoppable (Rolling Stone)

China could beat Hollywood by 2017 (Business Week)

Travelogue:Ajanta & Ellora Caves (Team BHP)

How to use Github for free hosting of files (DI)

The Patanjali phenomenon (FF)

Gossip: AAP will win Punjab (Gossip Guru)

A Multi Million House Rentals Startup (Office Chai)

How Vijay Mallya gamed the banking system (Newslaundry)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Acing all Odds-The Leander Paes Way (Forbes)

The Mahabharata of Indian Internet Unicorns (Haresh Chawla)

Why I am against NewsX and TimesNow (Newslaundry)

Remembering the Indian Naval Mutiny (Scroll)

Kamlesh Tiwari Vs JNU (Op India)

Sheldon Adelson bets it all (Mother Jones)

China’s rich kids head West (New Yorker)

Preparing for the collapse of Saudi Arabia (Atlantic)

The Billion Year Wave (New Yorker)

How 21 year old Rohith is riding his Enfield to 46 Countries (YS)

How Manish Sharma lost his Startup and got it back (Mint)

11 Reasons why a Startup is like a girlfriend (Office Chai)

Secret language of hands in Indian Iconography (Smithsonian)

Maroosh-The West Asian QSR (Outlook)

Gossip: Splitsville and Money (FS)