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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

You to still die one day (The Onion)

Gravitational waves detected confirming Einstein (NYTimes)

How a Facebook page became a 600 Crore Company (OfficeChai)

Why Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah celebrates Basant Panchami (Scroll)

The reel and real life of Pran (Quint)

Anatomy of a drug war in New York (NYMag)

Fear and Faith in Dhaka (Open)

Inside Steve Madden’s shoe empire (BuzzFeed)

Medicine without the medicine (Mosaic)

Cross Country Drive:Mumbai to Sikkim (TeamBHP)

The “Alu” brigade of journalists (Jaggi)

Post mortem of niticentral.com (Newslaundry)

Startup Story:Trifecta Capital (YS)

India’s Most Unique Startups (OfficeChai)

19 Funny Tweets about Valentine’s Day (BuzzFeed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What are the things that only Indians can say? (Quora)

How I scammed Quikr and PayTM (Office Chai)

In the Naxalite “liberated” zone of Bastar (Wire)

Call of the Caliphate (M J Akbar)

The Lutyen’s Power Circle (Media Crooks)

Muslims must return Ayodhya,Kashi & Mathura to Hindus (Muhammed)

Why did two parents murder their adopted child? (Telegraph)

For French Jews,its better to be discreet than dead (BBC)

Homosexuality and Hinduism (OpIndia)

Ghulam Ali:The politics of Ghazal (Tufail Ahmad)

Travelogue:Into the abode of Shiva (TeamBHP)

How to use Google Password Manager (Labnol)

Startup Story: Treebo (YS)

Bollywood Gossip: Karishma Kapoor’s Divorce (FS)

The Raj’s photos of Indians (Quint)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The End of Twitter (New Yorker)

Elon Musk Vs Warren Buffett (Bloomberg)

Desi man facing 380 years in jail (Fortune)

The rise and rise of Amit Shah (Wire)

CIA releases declassified documents on UFOs (Telegraph)

Making a murderer in Uganda (Foreign Policy)

The penis implant is here (GQ)

Travelogue:Winter Himachal in a Thar (TeamBHP)

Startup Story: Olabi (YS)

Why women need to get tested for cervical cancer (YouTube)

Nathuram Godse:The man who killed the Mahatma (Quint)

Malaysia’s utterly bonkers corruption scandal (Vox)

Indonesia’s call to tackle Islamism (Swarajya)

Donald Trump on India (Quartz)

Photos of the Week (Atlantic)