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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why is Aamir Khan such a pretentious prick? (Heartranjan)

Can Prabhu be the moderniser of Indian Railways? (Open)

Political gossip: Who is this Lady Minister? (GossipGuru)

What ISIS really wants (Atlantic)

Can Yemen be saved? (Project Syndicate)

Microsoft is the new Google, Google is the new Microsoft (Forbes)

Jonathan Ive: Apple’s greatest product (New Yorker)

Why Germany may not be bluffing in Greece (Bloomberg)

How did a white homeless kid become boss of Chinatown’s underworld? (RS)

Facebook Wall:Reactions to India’s win over Pakistan (Unreal Times)

Auto Review: Hyundai Verna 2015 (Team BHP)

Rentomojo.com: Plug-n-play kit for startups (Rodinhoods)

Movie Review:MSG (Great Bong)

The 30 under 30 class of 2014 (Forbes India)

Stunning portraits of women around the world (Independent)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Booze,sex and the dark art of dealmaking in China (ChinaFile)

How Naresh Trehan became India’s most powerful doctor-businessman (Caravan)

Here is a $9 Trillion question (Bloomberg)

Why are Japan’s oldest businesses failing? (Atlantic)

11 real Valentine’s Day Horror Stories (NYMag)

How to defeat Putin in Ukraine (Slate)

Global illiteracy and its ghettos (Medium)

What we know about the earliest history of chocolate (Smithsonian)

The Fixer from Bharno,Jharkhand (Granta)

Leaked:Arvind Kejriwal’s Gmail Inbox (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Pleasures of West Bengal (TeamBHP)

Movie Review:Shamitabh (Vigil Idiot)

How a 23 year old makes 500,000 $ a year tweeting random facts (BI)

A gay wedding in Mumbai (BuzzFeed)

Shazia Ilmi:Shekhar Gupta is a wheeler dealer (NDTV)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Rs.6,500 Crore mystery at Reliance Industries (Caravan)

Colonel M N Rai at the last post (IDR)

Second Hand Drive (Outlook Business)

20 Quality Stocks to invest in 2015 (Forbes India)

The hidden cost of a flexible job (Atlantic)

Is China preparing for a currency war? (Bloomberg)

Auto Review:Mercedes CLA Class (Team BHP)

Travelogue:Hornbill Festival,Nagaland (Ghumakkar)

What can parents do to prevent early puberty in girls (Smithsonian)

Why did Nehru & Ambedkar reject the word secular? (Newslaundry)

A Greek morality tale (Joseph Stiglitz)

Who are India’s best equity investors who invest for themselves? (Quora)

The reason behind Rahul Gandhi’s annoyance (Gossip Guru)

Saudi princes are patrons of Al-Qaeda (CBC)

The American who became a Sikh Yogini (Open)

Some offbeat reads for the weekend:

Return is King in real estate (Forbes India)

R K Laxman-Nothing common about this man (Open)

Lohia’s ghost (Outlook)

The sophisticated bigotry of Bobby Jindal (Atlantic)

Larry David-Fish in the dark (NYMag)

SLAs,KPIs and other corporate nonsense (Forbes)

Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium (Smithsonian)

Inside a British Bank Bombing spree (Bloomberg)

The Billionaire’s Bad Dream (Globe and Mail)

The murder that has obsessed Italy (Guardian)

Travelogue: Gujarat (Team BHP)

How to download your WhatsApp contacts (DI)

Do 90 % of day traders lose money? (Quora)

Indian Art & Crafts startup (Rodinhoods)

When Ashutosh of AAP came on Newshour (UnrealTimes)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Aamir Khan’s PK collected 300 Crores.Really ? (Moneylife)

Arun Jaitley:Growth Sutra 2015 (Open)

Among the believers in Pakistan (Bhutto)

We are not all Charlie (Atlantic)

The truth about independent consulting (Forbes)

The man to take on Putin (NewYorker)

The man who is going after Amazon (BusinessWeek)

Meeting Adil Hussain (JaiArjun)

Travelogue: Stunning Sandakphu (TeamBHP)

The price of oil in 2015 (Jim O’Neil)

On Dhoni (Great Bong)

Ridiculing National Security (Indian Defence Review)

The impact of Anand Mahindra’s Nanhi Kali project (Forbes India)

The untold story of a failed startup (Rodinhoods)

Samsung gets mugged in Android Land (Bloomberg)