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Don’t mess with Srinivasan’s astrologer

This post belongs to my This is India ! series.

You can’t mess with the fates. Or with astrologers. Srinivasan is a deeply superstitious individual. Meetings always happen on floor 11 of a prestigious Chennai hotel. Even the timing of the bus leaving the hotel is planned. The start of the AGM is also always at a particular time. Before every CSK match, there is a tantric triangle made outside the boundary line. He even refused to let the Indian team wear their new kit ahead of the 2012 T20 World Cup and stick to the old kit that they wore when they won the 2011 World Cup. The reason was probably a well-known astrologer and vaastu consultant in Chennai called Vaastu Venkatesan. They say that former India captain Kris Srikkanth introduced the astrologer to AC Muthiah and later to Srinivasan. The astrologer, according to reports, makes almost Rs 2 crore a year off Srinivasan-from Firstpost

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Linkfest:1 Oct,2013

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Ratnakar Bank finds profits where others fear to tread (Reuters)

The world’s cheapest emerging market (DailyReckoning)

Is NSEL a case of principal-agency problem? (Mint)

The story behind 0% interest EMI schemes (FE)

FIR against NSEL/FT promoters,directors and staff (BS)

Farewell, Lalu Prasad (Firstpost)

10 surprising economic trends that rule the world (Quartz)

10 terms investment pros use to raise money (TRB)

Sharing economy is here to stay (LATimes)

London’s hot Indian restaurant (Bloomberg)