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Weekend Mega Linkfest:Jan 17,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Technology can make your job redundant (Economist)

What happened to Baskin Robbins? (BusinessWeek)

How to find full length movies on YouTube (Labnol)

The Jat rage simmers (Outlook)

Ayodhya Shining (Open)

Mr.Manmohan, this is why the nation is angry (Tehelka)

Karachi Crusader (Caravan)

The Hindoos I would kill (Newslaundry)

Cash is King,Cash is blood supply (RamCharan)

The Khalistani Terrorism (IDR)

The earliest and greatest engineers were the Incans (Smithsonian)

Its expensive to be poor (Atlantic)

Travelogue:Kudremukha,Jewel of the Western Ghats (TeamBHP)

Spoof:Shashi Tharoor defends himself (UnrealTimes)

Why adolescence is more brutal to parents than the kids (NYMag)

On the phenomenon of Bullshit jobs (StrikeMag)

Arik Sharon-The General (NewYorker)

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Image:When a Google employee dies

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Memo from Howard Marks:Getting Lucky

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The Secret Business of Cheap Airline Seats

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Linkfest:Jan 17,2014

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Wall Street’s brightest minds reveal their best investment ideas for next decade (BI)

Institutional Trading platform draws VCs (BS)

The candidate who won’t save India (WSJ)

Tax saving deposit schemes lose out to better alternatives (ET)

American embassy school in eye of multi-crore scam (Firstpost)

How Washington beat Wall Street (Politico)

Dropbox and Uber:Worth Billions but still inches from disaster (Wired)

How wrong CIBIL reports have harassed and destroyed investor’s life (JagoInvestor)

The world’s best places to retire in 2014 (DailyReckoning)

Albert Edwards’s gloomy tone shifts to top gear (WSJ)