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Weekend Mega Linkfest: July 18,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The downing of MH17-A precedent for the  World’s battlefields (Atlantic)

How Russian hackers stole the NASDAQ (BusinessWeek)

Booming until it hurts (RobertShiller)

Fear & Foreboding in South Block (Open)

An Israeli shot in India’s arm (Tehelka)

Taking the taste of Bikaner global (ForbesIndia)

How Actors were transformed into Apes (Smithsonian)

Why do we have blood types? (Mosaic)

The Craigslist Killers (GQ)

If Bollywood Directors had directed the “Dawn of the Apes” (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Conquering the Marsimik La (TeamBHP)

How I write (WilliamDalrymple)

Goodbye Yahoo Chat ! Goodbye Orkut ! (GreatBong)

What is the biggest misconceptions Indians have about India? (Quora)

Jains want Palitana to be declared a vegetarian zone (Outlook)

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Insurance

ICICI Pru Life is the most profitable life insurer in India

(Disclosure:I am market making in the shares of ICICI Pru Life)

As the table below shows, ICICI Pru Life is the most profitable life insurer in India, beating even the giant LIC in profits.

Life Insurer Profits (In Crores)
ICICI Pru 1496
LIC 1437.59
Bajaj Allianz 1285.64
SBI Life 622.17
HDFC Life 451
Kotak Mahindra Life 189.74

 

Source: IRDA (figures are for 2012-13)

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Cartoon IPO

IPOs Explained

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Image This is India !

Indians shit everywhere

‘Indians, defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, beside the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover.’

V S Naipaul wrote these lines in his book “An Area of Darkness” in 1964

50 years later nothing has changed as the chart below shows

DefecatingInTheOpen

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Movie Video

Israel goes to war-Proportional Response

An great clip shared by Nissim which explains the Israeli response.