Some off beat reads for the weekend:
The autumn of the brothers Rajapaksa (Open)
Imran Khan’s U-Activate India (Naila Inayat)
Congress has to separate to restore (Seshadri Chari)
Finland strikes to enroll in NATO (US Information)
Russia’s ‘gasoline weapon’ is a delusion (Al Jazeera)
America-China business battle is set to hit the Heart East (Jacobin)
Bollywood can cement ties between India & Saudia Arabia (Arab Information)
Why Catalonia failed (Palladium)
Jubao in China (New Yorker)
The invincible trade of Counterfeit items (Mother or father)
The nuclear circle of relatives has failed (Unherd)
Within the Courtroom of the Liver King (GQ)
Thread: The storytelling framework that Steve Jobs makes use of (Nathan Baugh)
What makes a fart a fart? (Slate)
Obituary: Shiv Kumar Sharma (Open)
