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Weekend Mega Linkfest:Dec 06,2013

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Network Effect (Caravan)

A Scam by any other name (Newslaundry)

Mahesh Tutorials:Looking beyond classrooms (ForbesIndia)

The Broken Estate (Caravan)

Anna Hazare:The Man Who Could’ve been (Open)

Bikram Yoga’s embattled founder (VanityFair)

Nelson Mandela:A Life in Photographs (NewYorker)

A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (Smithsonian)

Maoists,Ousted (ForeignAffairs)

Nelson Mandela:The view from South Africa (Atlantic)

Lingua Fracas in Nayakan and Inglourious Basterds (JaiArjun)

A Death at Tough Mudder (Outside)

How the American Worker has got screwed (Prospect)

Indian garment factory sends thugs after American journalist (MotherJones)

How radioactive poison has become the assassin’s weapon of choice (Medium)

From Bangalore to Bhutan (TeamBHP)

NRI Desi Facts (GreatBong)

What to do when you are broke and building your startup? (Rodinhoods)

Travelogue:Shillong & North East India (Ghummakar)

The Last days of President Johnson (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Bullett Raja (VigilIdiot)

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Image:Behavior Gap

Hat Tip Sadique Neelgund

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Currencies

Dallying with the Dollar

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Poems

Nelson Mandela’s favorite poem

The poem is Invictus, by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

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Linkfest:Dec 06,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Obituary:Nelson Mandela (FT)

How good is Carl Icahn? (TRB)

Axis Bank employees forge signature of account holder (Moneylife)

CBI gives Supreme Court a ‘Birla Diary’ showing payments to politicians (FE)

The rise of the Sari Tying class (WSJ)

Why investing in PSUs is a good idea (Moneycontrol)

Simplifiers and Optimizers (ScottAdams)

4 Lessons from 2013 (DragonflyCapital)

10 Themes for 2014 (Bernstein)

Building a simple sector rotation on momentum and trend (Faber)

Philanthropy,stock picking and frugality (Reuters)