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Weekend Mega Linkfest:July 20,2013

Some offbeat reads for the weekend:

Did Aditya Birla group invest in PMS of Prime Securities? (Moneylife)

Was it possible to capture Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in 1947? (IDR)

How Ashish Chauhan is reviving BSE (Forbes)

India-Big Country,Big Problems (Barrons) Hat tip David

The unsinkable ship of Theseus (Newslaundry)

An explosive sorrow-A story about Patna (Caravan)

Anawratha’s battle axe (Outlook)

Modi epitomises what the other India would look like (Tehelka)

The IB test (Open)

Unlike Me (Slate)

The end of the world might just look like this (Smithsonian)

Competition amongst Islamists (Economist)

A new drone deal for Pakistan (ForeignAffairs)

10 Things beaches won’t tell you (MarketWatch)

How she lives on minimum wage-a McDonald’s worker explains (Forbes)

A Stay-At-Home mother’s most dreaded question (Atlantic)

12 dishes for the rainy season (MumbaiBoss)

Bubbles forever (Shiller)

Travelogue: Did the Diu in a Punto (TeamBHP)

Spoof:Congress to charge Rs.5 to attend Vipassana with Manmohan Singh (UnrealTimes)

The curious genius of Amar Bose (Popsci)

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Linkfest:July 19,2013

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Gitanjali Gems chief barred from trading (FE)

Investing in real estate is not simple for NRIs (Mint)

Rajat Gupta fined $13.9 Million (BS)

CNN-IBN and NDTV-The lying Macaulay cousins (Mediacrooks)

JPMorgan US Value Equity Offshore Fund (OneMint)

Don’t bother saving anymore (DailyReckoning)

Larry Summer’s Billion $ bet at Harvard (Bloomberg)

Art as a store of value (Climateer)

Asking the right questions (BigPicture)

Tips for better index investing (RickFerri)

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Linkfest:July 18, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Namo Rs 5 gambit could be a winner (Firstpost)

FIIs plan to stay out of Rs40000 Crores PSU disinvestment (ET)

At Rs50000 Crore, Arcelor Mittal is India’s biggest FDI pullout (FE)

Reliance Retail hopes to prove modern retail is profitable in India (Mint)

Realty, gold soak up two thirds of household savings (BS)

Mumbai’s diamond hub loses its crown (MumbaiMirror)

Liquid Funds NAV falls (CapitalMind)

Guy that sells fake Twitter accounts makes big bucks (BI)

Sell signal from key market indicator (MarketWatch)

Blinded by correlations (CapitalSpectator)

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Linkfest:July 17, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

CBI guns for Anil Ambani and wife in 2G spectrum case (FE)

Govt clears 100% FDI in defence, telecom (Mint)

No quick gains for Oberoi Realty (BS)

Mumbai’s star bar girl on the Supreme Court Order (MumbaiMirror)

Why Narendra Modi’s “burkha of secularism” is an apt description (FirstPost)

3 Reasons not to vote for Narendra Modi (VoteforModi)

Whose side is your financial adviser? (Guardian)

When do you admit that you are wrong? (DragonflyCapital)

Curse of the macro tourists (BigPicture)

Apple:Game over or room to grow? (CNNMoney)

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Linkfest:July 16, 2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

RBI squeezes liquidity (BS)

Where to go to file e-returns? (BusinessLine)

Want to be a good trader/investor?Learn from LIC (MoneyControl)

Death of the small (Subramoney)

Retail Investors more interested in debt than equity (CapitalMind)

Pity the fool who holds the dong (DailyReckoning)

The big backlash (TRB)

Namo and the truth of US Visa (Mediacrooks)

The iPhone paradox of India’s middle class (Bloomberg)

TDS on property transactions (Moneylife)