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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The lies and politics behind GST (Op India)

What Gandhis don’t want you to know about Adil Shahryar (DailyO)

When I was a Prisoner of War in Pakistan (Outlook)

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success? (Harpers)

ISIS enshrines a theology of rape (NYTimes)

The unretiring Serena Williams (NYMag)

How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels (New Yorker)

Finland-The country most afraid of Russia (Harpers)

Spoof:Sushma Swaraj in Lok Sabha (Unreal Times)

Auto Ownership Review:Mercedes CLA45 (Team BHP)

A hanging in India (Shashi Tharoor)

Jinnah’s role in India’s first talkie Alam Ara (Scroll)

Mutual Fund Startup Scripbox gets funding of 16 Crores (YS)

Arnab’s hoax (Media Crooks)

Ashish Khetan:I leaked the Radia tapes (Newslaundry)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

What lies behind the incredible rise & rise of Bharti Airtel (Wire)

Essar’s industry of influence (Caravan)

Sonia Gandhi:India’s most vicious politician (Media Crooks)

Sanjiv Goenka steps into the limelight (Forbes)

How Radhe Maa wore a mini skirt (DailyO)

On the Aarushi case (Jai Arjun)

My 51 years at Fortune magazine (Carol Loomis)

A Napa Valley in China (CS)

Auto Review:Our Hyundai Creta Diesel (Team BHP)

Nitish Kumar:Caught in the DNA web (OpIndia)

When does one say ‘No’ to business? (Subroto Bagchi)

Get Fare Estimates for Uber Taxis on Twitter (Labnol)

The bureaucrats who singled out Hiroshima for destruction (Atlantic)

Mumbai after Yakub’s hanging (Open)

Does the Congress party owe India reparations? (Newslaundry)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

An open letter by a cop to those opposing death penalty to Yakub (Op)

Shaming of the British Empire (Open)

The last resort for an Indian Cancer patient (Scroll)

Is this India’s worst real estate nightmare? (Mint)

Making money off the lazy economy (FF)

The singular mind of Terry Tao (NYTimes)

Bobby Jindal and the trouble with Louisiana (New Yorker)

Why Cecil was such an important lion (Slate)

A Pakistani teen made $200,000 in a month as a professional gamer (Bloomberg)

Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others (Smithsonian)

Why Mullah Omar’s death could be a nightmare for Afghanistan (Atlantic)

The worst thing you can do in a job interview (Forbes)

BJP and Modi’s horoscopes (Gossip Guru)

Auto Review:Maruti S-Cross (TeamBHP)

How to get the best finance deal while buying a car (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Indians took over the Antwerp diamond trade (Scroll)

A portrait of Yakub Memon (Open)

What about those startups that don’t have war chests (FF)

The inside story of Mission Yemen (Forbes)

How Indian Air Force made history with the Kargil war (DailyO)

The downfall of Gujarat’s last Rajput ruler (Caravan)

There is no stopping the Trump show (Atlantic)

How trees calm us down (New Yorker)

The mysterious sleeping villages of Kazakhstan (BuzzFeed)

The myth of the ethical shopper (Huffington Post)

Travelogue:Divegar and Hari Hareshwar (Team BHP)

Auto Review: BMW 320d (Team BHP)

The horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse (Project Syndicate)

A genomics-based diagnostics startup called MedGenome (YS)

On Sholay, 40 years later (Wire)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret (Guardian)

Kota System: 600 Crore Coaching Industry (Open)

The incredible journey of Sania Mirza (Newslaundry)

60 quotes by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Money Excel)

India’s super 50 companies (Forbes India)

The battle for the BBC (Guardian)

Travelogue:Himachal in a Renault Duster (TeamBHP)

How I exited Mobile2Win India (Alok Kejriwal)

On Bobby “I am not Indian” Jindal (Great Bong)

Beyond Pluto (Scroll)

A startup called Gymer (Your Story)

What’s so special about ‘Baahubali’ (Forbes)

India’s newest superstar is a film director (Wire)

How to get rich in the new Cuba (New Yorker)

What open marriage taught one man about feminism (NYMag)