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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dr.Ambedkar wanted to burn the Constitution (Quint)

The girl Major Dhruv Yadav left behind (IDR)

Tipu Sultan:Noble Or Savage ? (William Dalrymple)

Open letter by a Mt.Carmel student (DailyO)

Acche Din are already here (IndiaFacts)

Is Science kind of a scam ? (New Yorker)

How Nepal is coping with India’s economic blockade (Scroll)

The ecstasy of Donald Trump (Atlantic)

The “Intolerant ” Indian (Great Bong)

Snake Soup keeps Hong Kong warm in winter (Bloomberg)

Remembering Lachit Borphukan-Shivaji of the East (Swarajya)

The magic of Smita Patil (Jai Arjun)

Travelogue:2,000 km ride around Sri Lanka (Team BHP)

Gautam Adani’s angst? (Gossip Guru)

Scandalous tales of Delhi’s elite  (Fashion Scandal)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India & Pakistan are victims of self-induced myopia (Salman Khurshid)

Gossip:Who will replace Amit Shah? (GossipGuru)

The financial angle behind Sheena Bohra’s murder (Quint)

Girish Karnad:The many masques of the playwright (Sandeep)

The badlands of Meghalaya (Swarajya)

Life as a drone operator (Guardian)

Paris Attacks:The John Oliver Response (YouTube)

Terrorism does not have a religion,but terrorists do (Tarak Fateh)

Ending blowback terrorism (Jeffrey Sachs)

The Dadri Truth-Personal Grudge twisted into a Communal Killing (Quint)

Food Fight between Hindus and Muslims in Indonesia (Caravan)

Romania:The murderers next door (Guardian)

The Silicon Valley Suicides (Atlantic)

Travelogue: Murshidabad (TeamBHP)

Startup:Namastecraft (YS)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How a Mckinsey Partner made millions off his maid (Caravan)

Putin’s billionaire daughters (Reuters)

Video:The Knife Intifada (Vimeo)

India re-energized (Samir Saran)

Modi’s power sector reforms are his most important (Swarajya)

The Disney Shanghai (Bloomberg)

Bihar debacle:The way forward for BJP (Tufail Ahmad)

The scheme to transform a remote island into a new Dubai (Guardian)

The Mafia has lost its code of silence (NYTimes)

Living and Dying on Airbnb (Medium)

India’s sacred cows and unholy politics (Shashi Tharoor)

The attempt to erase India’s Muslim past (Nadeem Paracha)

Startup: RentMyStay (YS)

Gaggan Anand:Top Chef (Forbes)

Why Tipu Sultan will always be remembered as a fanatic (Dailyo)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How we valued value (Bibek Debroy)

Decoding the habits of the one-eyed intellectual (Tufail Ahmad)

The Sangh’s loosening grip on its fringe elements (Caravan)

Why Bihar polls are crucial for Sanjay Joshi (Scroll)

Is the clock turning back in J&K ? (Newslaundry)

The second most famous thing to happen to Hiroshima (R&K)

Burt Reynolds isn’t broke but he has a few regrets (Vanity Fair)

China’s One Child Calamity (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:Mana Pass (Team BHP)

A fintech startup called Rupeevest (YS)

How to get things done with Trello (Labnol)

Integrity Vs High Performance (Subroto Bagchi)

Revisiting Slumdog Millionaire(Koenraad)

Programmers should not call themselves engineers (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Spectre (New Yorker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Passion is over rated and goals are for losers (Scott Adams)

Can BJP make a comeback in Bihar (Swarajya)

How the Lotus will bloom in Bihar (Gossip Guru)

RSS:The Bhagwat Way (Open)

The end of innocence (Haresh Chawla)

The backstory of the SEBI-FMC merger (Forbes)

Interview with founder of T.G.I. Fridays (Edible Geography)

Official Review:Mahindra TUV 300 (Team BHP)

End of honeymoon period for foodtech startups? (YS)

How I met my co-founder (Rodinhoods)

How ISIS spread in the Middle East (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Titli (Wire)

How Yudhishtira won over the God of Death (DailyO)

12 Street Foods you have to eat in Bengaluru (BuzzFeed)

9 Phrases Smart People never use in a conversation (Forbes)