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Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam (Guardian)

Can Manu Prakash save the world? (New Yorker)

My experience as a Uber driver (TeamBHP)

Saudi Arabia’s phony war on terror (Brahma)

The Devil and Jose Mourinho (Guardian)

The great Republican revolt (Atlantic)

How I built a 1C a year company and led it to bankruptcy (Rodinhood)

How a 25 year old is changing the celebrity gossip industry (BuzzFeed)

Royal Mysore Heritage Walks (YS)

Don’t confuse your mid-life crisis with entrepreneurship (Subroto Bagchi)

The Tharoor’s family Amul Journey (Shashi Tharoor)

Travelogue:The Dak Bungalow Trail (TeamBHP)

Movie Review:Star Wars,The Force Awakens (Great Bong)

Gossip:Advani wants to be President (Gossip Guru)

Some more Delhi gossip (Fashion Scandal)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I worry about Muslims (Mohammed Hanif)

Secrets of the Gujaratis,world’s best business people (Economist)

Why politicians play the ‘victim’ card (Jaggi)

How Rahul Gandhi lied about what happened in Assam (OpIndia)

How Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel was taken down (Atlantic)

The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh (New Yorker)

Illegal in Iceland (Smithsonian)

My dad was Darth Vader (Jai Arjun)

Unpregnant (Globe & Mail)

Maruti Baleno:Official Review (Team BHP)

The great Greek Bank robbery (Yanis Varoufakis)

The $500 Million battle over Disney’s princesses (Bloomberg)

A startup called HealthAssure (YS)

Why India should honor Taslima Nasrin (India Facts)

Why American Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas (Atlantic)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Tempest: Prannoy Roy of NDTV (Caravan)

How Sandhya Jain broke the story of National Herald (MindNet)

Ramanujan:Encounter with the Infinite (Believer)

Profile: Welspun’s B K Goenka (Forbes)

Chennai:The deluge and the deluded (Open)

Islamophobia in America (Vox)

Trudeau’s Canada again (NYTimes)

Ownership Report:Hyundai Creta Diesel AT (TeamBHP)

Startup Story:MonkVyasa (YS)

Why did snakes foresake their legs? (Wire)

The ROI of Business Story Telling (FF)

Why is Rahul Gandhi so angry (DailyO)

Where are the Muslims on Hindi TV? (Newslaundry)

Gossip:Namo has Bose’s files (GossipGuru)

Facebook Wall:Salman Khan’s acquittal (Unreal Times)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to his daughter (Facebook)

Images of Chennai Floods (DailyO)

Relationship between media and celebrities is over (AWL)

The Statue of Liberty was originally a Muslim woman (Smithsonian)

A dummies guide to litfests in India (IndiaFacts)

Facebook Vs YouTube battle for online video (Om Malik)

ISIS’s oil smuggling operation (New Yorker)

Caltech Basketball:The revenge of the nerds (SI)

How Congress helped produce a better GST Bill (Swarajya)

New rules for the old real estate game (YS)

Schlep blindness in startups (Paul Graham)

Gossip:Sahara Shri Sidelined (Gossip Guru)

Favorite online radio (TeamBHP)

21 Reasons to visit Thailand (Telegraph)

The world’s best new luxury hotels (Telegraph)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Dr.Ambedkar wanted to burn the Constitution (Quint)

The girl Major Dhruv Yadav left behind (IDR)

Tipu Sultan:Noble Or Savage ? (William Dalrymple)

Open letter by a Mt.Carmel student (DailyO)

Acche Din are already here (IndiaFacts)

Is Science kind of a scam ? (New Yorker)

How Nepal is coping with India’s economic blockade (Scroll)

The ecstasy of Donald Trump (Atlantic)

The “Intolerant ” Indian (Great Bong)

Snake Soup keeps Hong Kong warm in winter (Bloomberg)

Remembering Lachit Borphukan-Shivaji of the East (Swarajya)

The magic of Smita Patil (Jai Arjun)

Travelogue:2,000 km ride around Sri Lanka (Team BHP)

Gautam Adani’s angst? (Gossip Guru)

Scandalous tales of Delhi’s elite  (Fashion Scandal)