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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Brazil’s richest man lost $34.5 Billion (BusinessWeek)

Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? (Smithsonian)

The United Colours of Abdullah (Open)

Alumni Cults:Inner most allies (Outlook)

Why is Hyderabad important? (Tehelka)

What threatens the best laid plans of Shivraj Singh Chouhan? (Caravan)

Yogesh Mahansaria’s second coming (ForbesIndia)

What we eat affects everything (Atlantic)

The end of the full college scholarship (MarketWatch)

Obituary:Robert Ford (Economist)

Darkness in Washington (NewYorker)

Once upon a time in the Middle East (MorningNews)

Letter from Kenya:Surviving Westgate (NewYorker)

Friends without benefits (VanityFair)

Sagarika Ghose quizzes NaMo and RaGa (UnrealTimes)

Initial ownership report:Toyota Fortuner (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Evolution explains why you will hate your daughter’s choice of mate (PsychCentral)

How two mad men brought the world to the brink of nuclear war due to India (Open)

The Sequoia guide to pricing your product (Sequoia)

Buffett:Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history (Bloomberg)

Delhi’s political cemetery (Newslaundry)

Is Sharif making a deal with the devil? (Tehelka)

History:The blood Meridian (Economist)

Shanghai’s New Free Trade Zone (BusinessWeek)

Youngest kid,smartest kid? (NewYorker)

My daughter’s homework is killing me (Atlantic)

Film Critique:Bimal Roy’s Naukri (JaiArjun)

Sexting,shame and suicide (RollingStone)

Spoof:Nandan Nilekani Vs Anil Kumble (UnrealTimes)

The best, brightest and least productive (RobertShiller)

Car Review:Grand Hyundai i10 (TeamBHP)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The ‘United AP’ cry gets louder (Tehelka)

Jignesh Shah:The Shah of fraud (Outlook)

Humor:Behind the Food Security Bill (Newslaundry)

Ruchir Sharma analyzes India’s Centre-States Equation (Forbes)

Shankar Nag fandom and modern Kannadiga Identity (Caravan)

Wretched new IITs (Open)

NSEL:Loot in the name of the farmer (GFilesIndia)

What Putin understands that most Americans don’t (Atlantic)

Photo Essay:Rare scenes from 9/11 (VanityFair)

How Facebook makes us unhappy (NewYorker)

Why are some people left-handed (Smithsonian)

Obituary:Narendra Dabholkar (Economist)

World cup 2022 in Qatar-V V Hot (Businessweek)

Meet the Psychiatrist in the world’s happiest country (Star)

Spoof:The meeting behind the key decision on Modi (UnrealTimes)

The case for India (RaghuramRajan)

Movie Review:Zanjeer (VigilIdiot)

Monkeying with the rupee (IdeasForIndia)

All LinkedIn with nowhere to go (Baffler)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Interview with Bashar Al-Assad  (Izvestia)

An evening with an alleged mind reader (Open)

Asad,Akbar,Anarchy (Tehelka)

Engineering Terror (IDR)

The death of opinion mandi TV (Newslaundry)

Can anything put India’s defence middlemen out of business? (Caravan)

What urban planners can learn from a Hindu religious festival (Smithsonian)

The world’s biggest mutual fund takes a 41 Billion $ hit (Businessweek)

Amongst Syria’s Islamist fighters (NewYorker)

Going bankrupt at 25 changed Tommy Hilfiger’s life for the better (Forbes)

Why Interning at 60 is the new retirement plan (Atlantic)

How does McDonalds India operate? (Rodinhoods)

On the newshour tonite (GreatBong)

The Vulture’s Victory (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram (TeamBHP)

Spoof:Nawaz Sharif to campaign for JD (U) in Bihar (UnrealTimes)

The strange story of Skype (Arstechnica)

How Taliban attacked the largest US airbase in Afghanistan (GQ)

The Sholay opening scene visited (JaiArjun)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The saint and his taint (Tehelka)

Lets share the cock (Open)

Sex Crimes noone cares about (Newslaundry)

Ratnakar Bank is amongst India’s top lenders (Forbes)

Land acquisition in India to become costly (Moneylife)

City of the lost (NewYorker)

12 Cover letter mistakes to avoid (Slate)

Great cocktail moments in great literature (Smithsonian)

Attacking Syria (Economist)

Why is Vladimir Putin acting so crazy (BusinessWeek)

What Syria teaches us about hyperinflation (Atlantic)

460 Days of captivity in Somalia (NYTimes)

Bobby Riggs, the Mafia and the battle of the sexes (ESPN)

Spoof:What is secularism? (UnrealTimes)

Can Mumbai call itself a great food city? (MumbaiBoss)

Sher-E-Bengal (GreatBong)

Thailand 101:Advice, Tips,Planning etc (TeamBHP)