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Weekend Mega Linkfest: August 11, 2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

CAs share a DNA of trickery and perhaps fraud (Outlook)

Modi’s double edged farewell to VP Ansari (Jaggi)

Trump is horribly witless about the world (New Yorker)

Peter Thiel’s secretive company Palantir (Wired)

How Britain fell out of love with the free market (Guardian)

A Fraternity hazing death (NYTimes)

A Vietnamese kidnapping in Berlin (Forbes)

The complete history of the IBM PC (Ars Technica)

At the Mahindra Off Roading Academy (Team BHP)

Movie Review: When Harry met Sejal (Great Bong)

BJP’s plans to breach Fort Amethi (Gossip Guru)

How Pradeep John became TN’s Weatherman (BI)

Prateik Babbar on his drug addiction (Mid Day)

Aspirin’s 4000 year old history (Smithsonian)

Ownership Review: Vitara Brezza (Team BHP)

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Linkfest : August 11, 2017

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Cochin Shipyard to debut today (BL)

Hero Motocorp’s success (ET)

Nainital Bank trying to revamp as a Digital Bank (Mint)

Interview with “Grave Dancer” Sam Zell (Value Walk)

Company Profile: Motherson Sumi (OB)

How TK Chandiran created a textile empire (Forbes)

Indian cities to see fastest growth in Asia (Bloomberg)

Why everyone should write (Morgan)

Big Oil will become Big Green (Katusa)

Can Trump win the game of chicken with N Korea? (Zero Hedge)

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Linkfest: August 10, 2017

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

New India Assurance files for IPO (Mint)

Reform loses a Champion in India (Bloomberg)

Indian Banks’ soaring price to truth ratio (Andy)

Vijaypat Singhania is now penniless (ET)

The lament of a Senior Citizen (Bala)

Notes from Edelweiss Investor Day (Amit Jeswani)

How D S Kulkarni cheated everyone (Vijay Kumbhar)

Why income is more important than net worth for financial freedom (FS)

The next bull market is in Lithium (Yahoo)

Valuations-A range not a price (A VC)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: July 28, 2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Decoding Nitish Kumar’s politics (Jaggi)

BJP have conquered the Hindi heartland (Scroll)

India’s women cricketers have changed the game forever (Open)

Kashmir: ISIS is the new code (Outlook)

The hijacking of a $ 100 Million Super Tanker (Bloomberg)

Inside NASA’s mission to the North Pole (Guardian)

Sadiq Khan: London Mayor (New Yorker)

Yazidi women: Slaves of the ISIS (Guardian)

The Aristoprats (Indian Quarterly)

Startup : Coin Tribe (YS)

Travelogue: Mizoram (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Dunkirk (Great Bong)

Ownership Review: My pre-worshipped Jetta (Team BHP)

The most nostalgic song ever (Munna De) & the translation

Gossip: How RaGa messed up his meeting with Chinese Ambassador (GG)

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Linkfest: July 28, 2017

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Interview with Basant Maheshwari (ET)

Instagram is tipping off India’s Taxman (Bloomberg)

Flows to Floats (Nooresh)

Stunning Annual Report of Games Workshop (Amit)

Daily Economics: Running a paan stall in Mumbai (Scroll)

How Hindustan Zinc became the world’s 2nd largest zinc producer (Forbes)

Stock Talk: Symphony (Forbes)

Rebuttal to Howard Marks (TRB)

Do you have a money mind? (Monevator)

11 Great American companies who have lost the narrative (247 Wall Street)