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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 05 July, 2019

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Israelis come to India after army stint (TOI)

Clean Up of Corporate India has begun (Sucheta Dalal)

A new Uzbekistan is taking shape (SCMP)

Money laundering in UK (Guardian)

The Dalai Lama’s lapse (Rafia Zakaria)

The political will to solve Kashmir (Makarand Paranjape)

Lotus will bloom in Andhra (Gossip Guru)

Inside the Islamic State modules in India (Open)

Can Rajnath Singh bite the bullet? (India Today)

The story about Amar Chitra Katha (LHI)

The truth about the Hot Dog (BBC Travel)

Black Ops (J Mathrubootham)

Calling 108 (Better India)

Ownership Review: Jawa 42 Bike (Team BHP)

The rise & fall of Varanasi’s corpse photographers (Mint)

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The Govt Quoting Scriptures

Hat Tip : JD

Source: Economic Survey 2018-19 of India

Reminds me of these lines by Shakespeare

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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Linkfest: 05 July, 2019

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

A blueprint for a $5 Trillion Economy (BL)

Nirmala Sitharaman wants to you to buy a house (ET)

NCLAT order in Essar Steel case (Mint)

Govt orders probe against Jet Airways for fraud (Rediff)

Rail stocks gather steam (BS)

On Realty Stocks (Forbes)

Personal Finance lessons from a Jet Airways Employee (Basu Nivesh)

PIL on LIC Jeevan Saral (Money Life)

Value isn’t dead, it’s misunderstood (Value Plays)

Evernote blows up (NY Times)