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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The killing of Osama Bin Laden (Seymour Hersh)

J Jayalalithaa-The Phoenix (Open)

Marc Andreessen: Tomorrow’s advance man (NewYorker)

On Shoojit Sircar’s Piku (JaiArjun)

My Dad tried to kill me with an alligator (Outside)

Auto Ownership Review: Toyota Etios Diesel (Team BHP)

Gossip: Modi’s 12 Lakh Coat (Gossip Guru)

Mahindra World City: A township that dreams big (Forbes)

Anurag Kashyap-The runaway Director (India Today)

Is the Modi Govt losing the plot? (Media Crooks)

Iran-An unequal revolution fuels anger (Guardian)

Why the best way to see Iceland is by a horse (Smithsonian)

Settling the great India-Pakistan mango debate (Dawn)

The truth about Sovereign Wealth Funds (FP)

Tech startups in India attract big names and money (NYTimes)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Retire by 40.Why? (Mint)

Don’t buy Alibaba’s success story (Bloomberg)

David Cameron’s tweeted kiss (Guardian)

Maple Syrup rebellion (Financial Post)

What really happened in Arun Shourie’s interview to Karan Thapar (UnrealTimes)

Death Watch: Auto Accessory shops (TeamBHP)

Travelogue: Kurukshetra (Ghumakkar)

You guys don’t deserve Bhai (Great Bong)

Suggestions for a F&B franchise (Rodinhoods)

Essential Apps and Utilities for your Mac (Labnol)

Did Aishwarya’s “Tell All” lead to Salman’s “Hit & Run”? (FS)

Photos:The Chinese Art of the Crowd (Atlantic)

The Tibet issue:A troubled neighborhood (IDR)

Quotes on Real Estate (Forbes)

A strangely funny Russian genius (NYBooks)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Twitter is in deep trouble (Slate)

Maruti rebooted (Forbes)

India’s earthquake map (Newslaundry)

Your mobile phone can detect earthquakes (Labnol)

Why women aren’t having children (Atlantic)

Home movies from Hitler’s vacations (Smithsonian)

George Soros’ tax bill of $6.7 Billion (Bloomberg)

The making of Ed Milibrand (Guardian)

The art of butchery (Aeon)

Gossip:Modi’s media management (GossipGuru)

Ownership Review: Renault Duster AWD (Team BHP)

Did US drone strikes lose Yemen? (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue: The Sunderbans (Ghumakkar)

Travelogue:Hitch hiking from Germany to India (Dawn)

Arts: The Deccan Chronicle (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Shoes Post (Beatzo)

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story (Open)

The case for peace with Iran (Jeffrey Sachs)

How Steven Seagal became Kremlin’s envoy (Buzzfeed)

Gossip: Advani to be NDA’s Presidential candidate in 2017 (GossipGuru)

Ratan Tata is now an angel investor (Outlook)

What the trial of Manmohan Singh must address (Caravan)

800 Conversions that never happened (News Laundry)

Kidnapped at the border (New Yorker)

Facebook Wall:CSK valued at 5L (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (TeamBHP)

Deepinder Goyal: Zomato founder (Forbes India)

Taking stock of 75 years of McDonalds (Smithsonian)

100 years after the Armenian genocide (Atlantic)

How the most daring plan of WWI turned into a military disaster (I09)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Rahul Bhatia: High Flier (Open)

Subhash Runwal:Building a 1 Billion $ fortune (Forbes)

Why ITC and L&T’s CEOs are loath to leave (Outlook)

How vague prose can muddle court rulings (Caravan)

Why BJP bhakts love to hate NDTV (Newslaundry)

Kerala:The crises within the CPI (M) (Socialism)

In Pictures:Arun Jaitley doing things (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Mukutmanipur (TeamBHP)

Obama’s failed Afghan peace strategy (Brahma Chellaney)

The Vietnam War, as seen by the Victors (Atlantic)

The gold rush at the top of the world (New Yorker)

How Obama abandoned Iraq (Slate)

How to end India’s tax terrorism (Bloomberg)

Elan – The first Hindi film to have invisibility device (JaiArjun)

Knuckle cracking mystery solved (Independent)