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Mega Linkfest : 03 April, 2020

Some off beat reads for the weekend :

How Muslims play politics in India ( Abhijit Iyer Mitra )

Why secular liberals are wrong about Nizamuddin ( Vir Sanghvi )

Tablighi Jamaat : Jihad’s stealthy legions ( Alex Alexiev )

The West’s anti India bias factory is working overtime ( Abhijit Majumder )

The anti Hindu NY Times ( Ramesh Rao )

Is Covid 19 Laboratory born ? ( Maroof Raza )

The unravelling of a dancer ( New Yorker )

Greta’s World ( Rolling Stone )

Saudis blow off Trump ( ATimes )

Travelogue : Jordan ( Team BHP )

10 Isolation Tips from Scientists ( Smithsonian )

My father, a Pakistani Prisoner of War in India ( Sunniya Pirzada )

From Zimbabwe to England ( Danai Kupemba )

Mangaluru’s Jewish Connection ( LHI )

Chang Bhai, take care ( Priya Ramani )

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Linkfest : 03 April, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning :

PM Modi plans staggered exit from the lockdown ( FE )

Corona has pushed Bharat to the brink ( Mint )

Inside India’s race to make lakhs of ventilators ( Forbes )

Oil prices spike by 25% ( CNN )

What were your lessons during the 2008 Crash ? ( Nigel DSouza )

Thoughts on the markets ( Basant Maheshwari )

How the US should tackle Covid-19 ( Bill Gates )

Luckin Coffee turns out to be a gigantic fraud ( IBD )

When Dollar Cost Averaging matters the most ( Common Sense )

The Shock Cycle ( Morgan Housel )

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Linkfest : 02 April, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning :

Customers worry over moratorium ( Mint )

Why the global recession could last a long time ( NY Times )

Startups brace for layoffs ( BS )

Boost, Horlicks are now HUL brands ( BL )

Interview with Samit Vartak ( BQ )

Steve Cohen doubts this is the bottom ( ZH )

The real sting of this market crash ( MF Critic )

The financial world is a dangerous place ( T N Ninan )

Why stock markets did not decline during Spanish Flu ( Prof Robert Shiller )

Gold Prices – Calm before the storm? ( UK Investing )

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Linkfest : 01 April, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning :

Govt cuts small savings interest rates ( BS )

Interview with Vibha Padalkar ( BQ )

Micro Finance gets another blow ( ET )

‘Nationalise all private banks ‘ ( Rediff )

What’s ailing Parag Milk ( OB )

Covid – 19 gives elearning a boost ( Forbes )

Larry Fink’s letter to shareholders ( Blackrock )

Which way now ? ( Howard Marks )

Even Warren Buffett can’t nail the bottom ( Common Sense )

Is the stock market a Ponzi scheme? ( VP )

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Linkfest: 31 March, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

No extension of the Financial Year (IT)

Interview with Rajiv Bajaj (BS)

Lockdown hits power demand (Mint)

Virus devastates the Poultry industry (OB)

Contagion in India’s banking sector (Forbes)

Watch what the Chinese do (Bronte Capital)

The US 2020 deficit will explode to 18% (Morgan Stanley)

Alpha is truly ‘fleeting’ (Barry Ritholtz)

Revolutionary Electric Car battery from BYD (ATimes)

Berkshire Hathway & the Coronavirus crash (Rational Walk)