Category: Links

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Ponty Chaddha’s potent mix of liquor and politics (Caravan)

A God’s slow descent to earth (Open)

Where’s the party, the leader, the fight? (Tehelka)

Leadenhall Street irregulars (Outlook)

Anand Mahindra:The Federator (Forbes)

The forgotten hero of Punjab-Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (IDR)

Can brewing beer be as simple as brewing coffee? (Smithsonian)

Krygiztan’s most wanted (ForeignAffairs)

Why does Sweden have so many billionaires (Slate)

Dan Loeb:A profile of an activist investor (Forbes)

Are teens bored with Facebook? (Atlantic)

How the world’s biggest companies avoided billions of $ in taxes (WP)

A review of the NH7 Weekender (MumbaiBoss)

Spoof:Rahul Gandhi to be renamed Vikas (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Dhanushkodi (TeamBHP)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

The investment technology of FII and DII investors in India (AjayShah)

Jignesh Shah:NSEL crisis has destroyed everything (FE)

Supreme Court seeks to unshackle bureaucracy (Mint)

What went wrong with Jignesh Shah’s empire (ET)

A landmark turn in India’s medical negligence law (NYTimes)

The problem with market neutral strategies (Faber)

Found stock certificates:Spot the selection bias (BigPicture)

Are buybacks all they are cracked up to be? (WSJ)

Steve Cohen is selling some art for no reason (Dealbreaker)

3 Reasons Buffett is not buying (TRB)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Sensex closes at all time high (BS)

EOW freezes accounts of Jignesh Shah (Mint)

Diwali Bonanza for air travellers (BL)

Infosys visa fraud (FE)

Stock Tribes (TRB)

On Fat Tails (AlephBlog)

Funds of hedge funds recast dismal model (FT)

5 major changes in life insurance policies since 2014 (Jagoinvestor)

Best little hedge fund you never heard of (Hedgeworld)

Two investment firms sue Twitter (Bloomberg)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

When Raghuram Rajan got angry (FE)

India’s deepening economic mess (Mint)

Saradha swallowed 2000 Crores (BS)

Money managers look beyond index stocks (ET)

How Air France screws Indian passengers (JaiHarishShah)

Gold’s gift on the eve of zero hour (DailyReckoning)

Cracking the Apple trap (NYTimes)

6 things you should quit to be more successful (Forbes)

Islamic Finance can save the world (Bloomberg)

The perils of ascribing meaning to a random event (NYTimes)