Category: Links

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Who is Sundar Raman? (Open)

Why the Congress is likely to lose middle India (Tehelka)

The unmaking of Laloo Yadav (Outlook)

Why Abhishek Boria was sacked by Times Now (Newslaundry)

How Nandan Nilekani took Aadhar past the tipping point (ForbesIndia)

Campa Cola Case:How residents will be duped twice (MoneyLife)

Al Qaeda set to burn the Ganga post 2014 (IDR)

The cost of growth in India (NewYorker)

Can your genes influence who you love? (Smithsonian)

How Amazon became the everything store (Businessweek)

Confessions of a serial husband (GQ)

Why the Sinaloa Cartel loves to sell drugs in Chicago (Chicago)

Official Review:Nissan Terrano (TeamBHP)

Our seas are full of shit (Mumbaiboss)

Deconstructing Modi (GreatBong)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Promoters are buying bottomed-out stocks (ET)

SEBI issues draft norms for REITs (FE)

Jeweller’s explore ways to restore gold’s glitter (Mint)

Infy investors eye special dividend, buyback (BS)

6 Dumb mistakes while writing cheques (JagoInvestor)

PFC’s 8.92% Tax Free Bonds (OneMint)

The cleansing of downturns (AjayShah)

7 Ways Twitter could make money (PandoDaily)

Investing Gangnam Style (TurnkeyAnalyst)

Living in a low return world (AbnormalReturns)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

NSEL Vice President arrested by Mumbai police (FE)

Sales pitches you should avoid while buying your first house (ET)

India’s cow belt king is put out to pasture (Bloomberg)

What keeps IndiGo’s profit from flying high? (BS)

The velocity of stupidity (Mediacrooks)

Real Estate’s gold rush seems gone for good (NYTimes)

Rallies end when good news is sold (TRB)

7 Unreliable economic indicators that move markets (BI)

Expenses in a joint family (Subramoney)

Goldman Sachs says gold is a slam dunk sell (Climateer)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Buffett’s Crisis lending haul reaches $10 Billion (WSJ)

India Inc credit quality slips,worst coming (BS)

Sprite topples Thums Up from Numero Uno position after three decades (ET)

Has market timing given BSE a new lease of life? (Mint)

Apollo’s Cooper tire deal headed for a crash (FE)

The Mallya lesson for Ajit Singh (Firstpost)

The 102 Finance people you have to follow on Twitter (BI)

What a difference a  rally makes (TRB)

Is the market always right? (Ivanhoff)

Using Twitter to move the markets (NYTimes)

Warren Buffett hedge fund (HedgeFund)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Some NSEL brokers may face criminal charges(ET)

Rising royalty payments a cause for investor concern (Mint)

Developers take the road to asset sales as gloom spreads  (FE)

Caviar off the menu for Indian officials as Junk Rating looms (Bloomberg)

Is it all over between Bharti and Walmart? (BS)

Did the Vatican intelligence plan the deaths of Sanjay,Indira and Rajiv Gandhi?(II)

Event risk over the weekends (VIX)

Newsletter Returns:Be Sceptical (Barrons)

Twitter announces IPO:The Valuation (AswathDamodaran)

Ruia’s realty jackpot (Firstpost)

Dan Loeb’s doomed Sotheby campaign (Felix)