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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)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The day Kashmiri Pandits were left to die (DailyO)

Taming India’s Elite (Sanjeev Sanyal)

Hate Wave:Who wants a riot? (Open)

The Sunny Leone interview (Newslaundry)

The man who solved his own murder (Telegraph)

A never before seen secret surveillance device (Dragnet)

The storied past of Cipla’s founder (Scroll)

The US-Iran conflict that never happened (Atlantic)

Gossip:BJP out of the battle in UP (Gossip Guru)

DIY:Fixing a scratched bumper (TeamBHP)

Why you will never get rich in a startup (Rodinhood)

Startup Story:Bespoke Hotels (YS)

A pricing strategy for your business (Inc)

5 Signs you should be working for yourself (Forbes)

The best hotel in the world (Forbes India)

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)