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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How to save money while shopping online in India (Labnol)

Shekhar Gupta:Capital Reporter (Caravan)

The Gopichand Factory (Open)

Dilip Kumar:Peshawar 92 years ago (Outlook)

How M&M came to dominate the Indian automotive industry (ForbesIndia)

ISIS:The inside story (Guardian)

Welcome to Paradise (Telegraph)

The Chinese Century (Joseph Stieglitz)

Afghanistan:The making of a Narco State (Rolling Stone)

An open letter to Suhel Seth (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:The Jaisalmer Desert Festival (TeamBHP)

The untold story of Pakistan’s blasphemy law (Dawn)

M K Raghavendra on the new Bollywood (JaiArjun)

What I learnt from 10 years of IT career (Rodinhoods)

Parsis:The fear of extinction (Open)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Meet the King of Online Gambling (Forbes)

Is Venture Capital killing India’s startups? (Mahesh Murthy)

Divesh Makan:The Spider of Silicon Valley (Forbes)

Power and persuasion on the Frontier (Open)

Ram Madhav:The Pracharak is going places (Outlook)

GrowthStory’s Billion Dollar dreams (ForbesIndia)

The incredible shrinking incomes of young Americans (Atlantic)

The world cracks down on the Internet (NewYorker)

Why young Germans are joining the ISIS (Der Spiegel)

How not to get away with murder (DMagazine)

Owner Review:Mahindra Thar (TeamBHP)

Why every Indian should visit Pakistan (Dawn)

Remembering Deven Varma (JaiArjun)

Who is afraid of Elon Musk’s batteries? (Bloomberg)

Top 10 Mind Hacks to help you save money (LifeHacker)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Angela Merkel became the world’s most powerful woman (NewYorker)

Congress politicians:Out of sight (Open)

Smriti Irani:She rings the school bells (Outlook)

Left,right and Tejpal (Newslaundry)

How a triad scripted the turnaround for DSP Blackrock (ForbesIndia)

Spicejet likely to go the way of Kingfisher (MoneyLife)

Prospering in India’s aviation market (Economist)

The death and rebirth of the American Mall (Smithsonian)

Anita Sakeesian:The gaming industry’s greatest adversary (BusinessWeek)

The ghosts of Bhopal (TorontoStar)

The inside story of the withdrawal of Tarun Tejpal’s invitation to TOI Litfest (UnrealTimes)

2014:Best enthusiast cars in India (TeamBHP)

The geopolitical impact of cheap oil (Feldstein)

Islamabad is dysfunctional (Irfan Husain)

What is it like to make millions trading? (Quora)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The real roots of midlife crisis (Atlantic)

The curious world of online classifieds (Open)

Then BJP entered the Kashmir Valley (Outlook)

The gallant Dogra (IDR)

The Cosby show:Is Bill Cosby a rapist? (Atlantic)

Mobile payment startup Venmo is killing cash (BusinessWeek)

Islamic State’s gradual expansion into Africa (DerSpiegel)

Hell is other people (GQ)

In Pictures:Rajnath Singh doing things (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Iceland (TeamBHP)

India’s Economic Hotspots (ProjectSyndicate)

Mumbai slums comes to London stage (Economist)

Ambala to Moscow (Dawn)

Gabbar Singh-A fat lazy lout-Sholay-Reassessed (JaiArjun)

The voice of God Sachin and his silences (Great Bong)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Indian Government:The full lotus (Economist)

Nehru’s son-in-law (Open)

The falsehoods of Rajdeep Sardesai (Newslaundry)

Luxurious hotels that prosperous travelers love the most (ForbesIndia)

Repeal 66A (MediaCrooks)

The Bonanza Bean:Coffee (NationalGeographic)

Just how inflated are parent’s opinions about their kids? (BusinessWeek)

A black entrepreneur in Silicon Valley (FastCompany)

The story of Tupperware (MentalFloss)

How one man went from homeless to CEO (Inc)

In Pictures:Poll affidavits of various politicians  (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Phuket (TeamBHP)

Dependable luxury cars for 10-15 Lakhs (TeamBHP)

The return of the Dollar (El Erian)

Mount Kailash:The mountain no one can climb (Sanskriti)