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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)

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)