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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

7 Intelligent Fanatics from India (Fundoo Professor)

How ICICI Pru Life is screwing its customers (Capital Mind)

Value investors get flak for investing in “toll bridges” (RJ)

How Maggi is bad for us but good for UK (Newslaundry)

Only 2% of India is actually middle-class (Scroll)

Piketty:Germany has never repaid its debts (Wire)

P V Narasimha Rao’s Kashmir master stroke (Outlook)

Tibet after Dalai Lama (Project Syndicate)

The Mob’s IT deparment (Bloomberg)

Reaction of Indian Celebrities to Greece referendum (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Tirthan Valley,Himachal Pradesh (Team BHP)

What the stone edicts of Ashoka tell us (Caravan)

Are Lalit Modi’s days numbered? (Gossip Guru)

Real Estate startup eyeing 100 Crore sales in 2nd year of operations (YS)

Is getting “ripped” worth it? (Quora)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Rahul Yadav story you’ve never heard before (Haresh Chawla)

Shibulal: 60 and Rebooted (Forbes)

Lessons for journalists from Lalit Modi (Newslaundry)

Dying lonely in Japan (R&K)

A Nepali taxi driver in Qatar (Wilson)

A world without work (Atlantic)

What do Rahul Yadav’s IIT friends say about him (Qz)

Auto Review: Hyundai Creta (Team BHP)

The future of emerging markets (Laura Tyson)

Did Sanjay Gandhi slap Indira Gandhi 6 times? (Scroll)

Nikki & Bobby come to town (Open)

Games Cricket Godfathers play (Outlook)

What Jackie Chan taught Will Smith (Forbes)

Indian miner Adani makes his case (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gandhi bumps (Media Crooks)

Snoop Dogg feels the bite of Parsi legal culture (Scroll)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan (BBC)

Was studying in IIT worth it? (Scroll)

MAM Ramaswamy:The last King of Chettinad (Open)

The lesser known Wipro sibling (Forbes)

Will the Sun set on Maran’s empire ? (Newslaundry)

This is how Uber takes over a city (BusinessWeek)

The man who sleeps in Hitler’s bed (Guardian)

Zane’s secret (Washingtonian)

Is financial repression here to stay? (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:Lakshadweep (Team BHP)

The Ladhak Taxi Mafia (Team BHP)

The Hrishikesh Mukerjee Book (JaiArjun)

The violent legacy of India’s partition (New Yorker)

Gossip:Why Lalit Modi back stabbed Vasundhara Raje (Gossip Guru)

How Indians responded on Twitter to Bobby Jindal’s nomination (BuzzFeed)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

eCommerce in India-Know the Seller’s Story (Rodinhood)

The caste culture at IIT-Madras (Open)

How the world took to Yoga (Outlook)

‘Hindu Nationalist’ Modi (Newslaundry)

Prestige’s Irfan Razack and his Mumbai dream (Forbes)

Will the hike in service tax be easily digested? (MoneyLife)

Elon Musk’s space dream almost killed Tesla (Bloomberg)

How Utah became the epicenter of Get Rich Quick schemes (TPM)

How ISIS crippled Al-Qaeda (Guardian)

A tribute to Guide in its 50th year (JaiArjun)

How far can Indian comedy go? (Caravan)

The Idiot’s guide to keep your car clean and shiny (TeamBHP)

Political Gossip:The man behind Brand Rahul (Gossip Guru)

On Curry (Angst in my Pangst)

Claw machines have been designed to steal your money (Smithsonian)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dilip Sanghvi: Wind beneath his wings (Outlook Business)

The liquidity time bomb (Nouriel Roubini)

The quest for Hitler’s lost treasures (Der Spiegel)

How Sepp Blatter controls soccer (Bloomberg)

5 Huge Industries that never saw disruption coming (HP)

Making a business of recovering ancestral assets (Caravan)

On Alice in Wonderland (New Yorker)

Can China take a joke? (NYTimes)

This is what happens after you die (Ars Technica)

Travelogue:Western Arunachal in a Thar (Team BHP)

On Marks and Life (Great Bong)

How to make international phone calls without the internet (Labnol)

Photos: Coronation of Maharaja of Mysore (Outlook)

What if the Allies had lost World War I ? (Atlantic)

The ugly truth of fashion (Fashion Scandal)