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Weekend Mega Linkfest: July 17,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret (Guardian)

Kota System: 600 Crore Coaching Industry (Open)

The incredible journey of Sania Mirza (Newslaundry)

60 quotes by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Money Excel)

India’s super 50 companies (Forbes India)

The battle for the BBC (Guardian)

Travelogue:Himachal in a Renault Duster (TeamBHP)

How I exited Mobile2Win India (Alok Kejriwal)

On Bobby “I am not Indian” Jindal (Great Bong)

Beyond Pluto (Scroll)

A startup called Gymer (Your Story)

What’s so special about ‘Baahubali’ (Forbes)

India’s newest superstar is a film director (Wire)

How to get rich in the new Cuba (New Yorker)

What open marriage taught one man about feminism (NYMag)

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Linkfest: July 17,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Nod to composite cap on foreign investment (BS)

A game changer for private banks? (Mint)

BSE pitches for long term capital gains tax in stocks! (BL)

Cloud services eat up Indian IT outsourcing earnings (Capital Mind)

HDFC Sec Research Report: DCB Bank (Myiris)

Is PB based investing better than PE based investing? (FreeFinCal)

The two hats of Prof. Bakshi (Wise Wealth)

The Gig Economy (A VC)

An inside look at Anshu Jain’s role in Liborgate (Zerohedge)

Invest with the FED (Daily Reckoning)

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Linkfest:July 16,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Arbitrage funds are the real stars of the equity party (ET)

Default fears grows for state electricity boards (Mint)

US Fed on track to raise rates this year (Money Control)

States seek to have their own land laws (BS)

Emkay Research Report:Banking & Financial Services (RJ)

Short Investing Philosophies in 10 words or less (Motley Fool)

Stock Market hoaxes (Moneybeat)

Why buy and hold works (Common Sense)

Pope Francis takes the zombie side (Daily Reckoning)

How Warren Buffett calculates ROE (VRO)

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Linkfest:July 15,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Iran nuclear deal can give big gains to India (ET)

8 reasons why July could be an extraordinary month for Bajaj Auto (OneMint)

HDFC Sec Research Report:Indusind Bank (MyIris)

Is the end of real estate brokers near? (Mint)

Are tax free bonds an attractive investment option? (FE)

Luxury cars become more affordable (BS)

We are eager to find a guru and ape him blind folded (Mystic)

The hierarchy of investor needs (Motley Fool)

Twitter shares spike on fake Bloomberg story (BI)

Saving is never easy (Bankers Anonymous)

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Linkfest:July 14,2015

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Greece Capitulates (Bloomberg)

SEBI raises equity derivatives contract size to 5L (Mint)

Black Money generates 25% of the gold demand in India (FE)

Nomura Research Report:Housing Finance Companies (Nomura)

Why investing is complicated and how to make it simpler (NYT)

How one chart can more than double your trading gains (DR)

Prof. Bakshi’s favorite e-Commerce stock is hitting 52 week lows (RJ)

China’s real problem isn’t stocks,its real estate (BI)

Miners buried in Billions of $ of debt (Zero Hedge)

How the dominoes will fall after ISIS takes Damascus (Fiscal Times)