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Weekend Mega Linkfest:April 22,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Islam created Europe (Atlantic)

How Korea cleared its streets for the 1988 Olympics (AP)

Travelogue: Blessed in Bhutan (Team BHP )

Patriotism in Bastar (Outlook)

The design flaw of Taj Mahal (Open)

Air quality worst at 7 am in India(Newslaundry)

Poster boy Nikesh Arora:Overpaid and Underperforming? (Quartz)

The political desperation of Subhash Chandra (Gossip Guru )

Dr.Rao’s Rs.50 invention gives voice back to throat cancer patients (BI)

Startup Story : Cleartax (YS)

Kangana’s shocking emails to Hrithik Roshan (Quint)

The Kohinoor was never a gift (Scroll)

Our underwear,ourselves (New Yorker )

Volunteer holidays you can sign up for (Natgeo)

Weirdest reasons why Indians reject arranged marriage proposals (Dailyo)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: April 13,2016

Some off beat reads for the long long weekend:

Bengal:Mamata may lose (5Forty3)

What the sacking of Harsha Bogle tells us (Scroll)

The real truth about Modi’s gift to the Saudi King (Swarajya)

The big shift in business models (Edge)

Tesla may kill the petrol car by 2025 (Cleantechnica)

The fight for Balochistan (DailyO)

The Untouchables: MNCs in Zimbabwe (Foreign Policy)

Russia’s Middle East success (Project Syndicate)

A Dosa Machine for Buckingham Palace (BuzzFeed)

Travelogue:Trek through Garhwal Himalayas (Team BHP)

The best Twitter search tricks (Labnol)

Startup Story: Swiggy (YS)

Gossip:Venkaiah in the race for Vice President (Gossip Guru)

Veenu Paliwal-The Lady of Harley (Better India)

9 best backpacking destinations of 2016 (Natgeo)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: April 08,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

To live and die in Mumbai (California Sunday)

Controversies from past Royal visits to India (Scroll)

Indian e-Commerce just hit a new Normal (Haresh Chawla)

How Congress tweaked India’s history in its own favour (Anuj Dhar)

The battle for Dr.Ambedkar (Open)

What actually happened in NIT Srinagar (Swarajya)

How Deloitte analysts started a chain of hostels in India (YS)

An outsider’s view of Indian startup ecosystem (Office Chai)

Dharavi girls become coders,develop apps (Better India)

The strange case of Amitabh Bachchan’s political alliances (HP)

The Voyeur’s Motel (New Yorker)

22 Solo Travel Hacks (Natgeo)

The best Gujarati Thalis in Ahmedabad (Natgeo)

Photos:What’s selling on India’s pavements?  (Reuters)

Heart Warming Illustrations: Father Daughter Love (Bored Panda)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:April 01,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How the Akalis looted Punjab (Scroll)

How to eliminate problem behavior in kids (Atlantic)

Why is Subrata Roy not eager to get out of jail? (Swarajya)

Hussain Sajwani:The Donald of Dubai (Forbes)

Spicejet:A flight into the shadows (Open)

Coverage:Assam Elections (Caravan)

Playing the Modi card in London elections (Wire)

Badruddin Ajmal:Assam Kingmaker (Scroll)

Searching for Google CEO Sundar Pichai (BuzzFeed)

The self-loathing of Ram Guha (India Facts)

Why is a crater on Venus named after Dr.Anandibai Joshi? (Quint)

Travelogue:The Sanskari Middle Europe Trip (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Ki & Ka (Huffington Post)

How a US Couple is making 1 Million $ a year (Forbes)

Breakfast ideas from Instagram’s Gurus (Telegraph)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 18,2016

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)