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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 28 March, 2018

Some off beat reads for the long long weekend:

Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe? (Atlantic)

The Putin-Xi era (ATimes)

Interview with Amit Shah (You Tube)

The ultimate conversation on healthy eating (Grub Street)

Who wants to defame Yogi ? (Gossip Guru)

Ilayaraja,Jesus and Ramana (Swarajya)

A lurking prejudice (Jawed Naqwi)

The lives of others (Yasser Usman)

Sinister Vs Meek (Media Crooks)

Giraffes slip into endangered species list (Smithsonian)

72 Hours in Moscow (Nat Geo)

14 stories of kindness (Brightside)

“You are a good girl, na? ” (Arre)

Remembering Ek, Do, Teen (J Mathrubootham)

Yuri Gagarin-The first man in space (RT)

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Linkfest: 28 March, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

‘FANG’ stocks tank (CNBC)

Income Tax Dept freezes bank accounts of Cognizant (ET)

Bumper listing by Bandhan Bank (Mint)

Manipal, Fortis to merge hospital business (BS)

Lone dissenter sounds warning on India Banks (Andy Mukherjee)

How long can a good fund under perform its benchmark? (Morningstar)

Buying panics are rare (Irrelevant Investor)

Things that fund managers don’t say (Behavioural Investment)

Uncertainty and Risk (A VC)

Don’t follow your passion, follow your success (RetireBy40)

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Linkfest: 27 March, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Flop show of ICICI Securities IPO (BS)

Most Equity Funds fail to beat benchmarks (BL)

TPG Group nears deal for Fortis (Quint)

India bonds lose their charm for foreign investors (Reuters)

Why getting the ‘right price’ for Air India will be tough (Rediff)

Is money really an incentive? (Subramoney)

CEO Pay: Unlinked to performance (IIAS Advisory)

There is no next Warren Buffett (TRB)

On the one hand (Common Sense)

Buffett & Munger on investing in spinoffs (Value Walk)

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Linkfest: 26 March, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

A letter that is spooking ICICI Bank shareholders (Arvind Gupta)

Trade wars will lead to economic crisis (Robert Shiller)

IPO Review: Lemon Tree Hotels (Quint)

Stock Talk: Advanced Enzymes (Dhruva Pandey)

Hiranandanis to invest 3500 Cr in oil & gas sector (Mint)

Mutual Fund advisers are leeches (Mystic Wealth)

How Chinese trade secret theft nearly killed my company (CNN)

The last days of Whitney Tilson’s Kase Capital (IIAlpha)

What could you build with just $10,000? (Hacker Noon)

The Market Generals are dead (Zero Hedge)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 23 March, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How organised crime took over Russia (Guardian)

The Great British Tea Heist (Smithsonian)

Why the Rohingya can’t return (HP)

The Kurds keep remaking the Middle East (Atlantic)

Trump rolls the dice on China trade (ATimes)

The road out of Gwadar (Dawn)

Cutting ‘old heads’ at IBM (Pro Publica)

A moral reckoning in Silicon Valley (New Yorker)

The farmer’s long march to Mumbai (Rural India)

Road Trip: Prague & Germany (Team BHP)

Spoof: Saudi Prince & Jared Kushner (The Onion)

A Marathi Food movie with a caste problem (Arre)

Average intelligence on Earth has come down by 10 points (J Mathrubootham)

Stephen Hawking Diary (Outlook)

See if you can pass the FBI Special Agent test (Brightside)