Weekly Reading -- Aug 17: Offbeat

How Mosquitos helped shape human history

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-mosquitos-helped-shape-human-history-180972802/

The Jews in India

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blessing-dates-bananas-i-found-jewish-community-in-india/

India's city where people come to die

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190617-indias-city-where-people-come-to-die

The Kung-Fu Nuns of Ladakh

https://www.arre.co.in/people/kung-fu-nun-ladakh-martial-arts-jackie-chan-himalayas/