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Linkfest:Oct 22,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Now NSEL investors under taxman’s radar (Moneycontrol)

EOW suspects NSEL board meetings were orchestrated (FE)

Consumer goods sale hit 10 year low (ET)

Who regulates NSEL asks Bombay High Court (Mint)

FIIs raise exposure in Nifty companies in Q2 (BS)

High Court orders demolition of top two floors in Navi Mumbai (MumbaiMirror)

99% of long term investing is doing nothing (Dumbmoney)

The investment everyone loves to hate (DailyReckoning)

Forget fundamentals,FED liquidity is king (FT)

Demented…or what happens when a bear becomes a bull (TRB)

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Linkfest:Oct 21,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Secret CD blows lid of race fixing (MumbaiMirror)

Raghuram Rajan:Filtering out the real India (RBI)

Why India Inc should not cry wolf (Firstpost)

Saurabh Agarwal:The man who has cut deals for Tatas,Birlas (ET)

When SEBI dismissed North Block’s concerns about Jignesh Shah (BS)

Commie Media and anti-Hindu poison-Part 3 (Mediacrooks)

How our minds confuse skill and luck (CS)

Y Combinator applicant advice (Medium)

Switzerland curses America for making tax evasion unprofitable (Dealbreaker)

Talking Gold:The bigger picture (Climateer)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:Oct 18,2013

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Travelling with the Indian sex tourist to Tashkent (Open)

The many charms of Sheila Aunty (Tehelka)

Japan’s tormented relationship with its modernity (Caravan)

Economist:Thriving in the age of digital media (ForbesIndia)

The Indian Army-What’s gone wrong (IDR)

India’s sanitation disaster (Outlook)

What happens when a language has no numbers (Slate)

The 4500 year old city of Mohenjo Daro is crumbling (Smithsonian)

The coming collapse of Arab monarchies (ForeignAffairs)

How Oreos work like cocaine (Atlantic)

The story behind Rahul Gandhis “Escape Velocity of Jupiter” remark (UnrealTimes)

9 Best conversations of my life (Rodinhoods)

How the Goldman Sachs cafeteria works (BI)

A new way to know whats trending on Twitter (Labnol)

Travelogue:Fortuner goes to Ladakh,Spiti and Leh (TeamBHP)

Portrait of an Afghan Assasin (MotherJones)

I got hired at a Bangladeshi sweatshop (TheStar)

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Linkfest:18 October,2013

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Keep your expenses low (AustinKleon)

Ex-NSEL MD Anjani Sinha recants affidavit (Moneycontrol)

HSBC to shut India retail brokering services (WSJ)

Why HCL Tech,TCS shares fell (Mint)

Market cool to Reliance success (BS)

Coal blocks allotted to big firms maybe scrapped (FE)

The money is in the email (Allthingsd)

Greenspan’s map is clueless trip through bubble land (Bloomberg)

Secrets from a retail guru (Businessweek)

Investing like a psychopath (Fool)

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Linkfest:Oct 17,2013

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Land crunch forces burial grounds to increase rates (ET)

Will Pune be the next retail graveyard? (FE)

BJP to be single largest party in 2014 election (TOI)

Logic of naming Birla is to save PM (Firstpost)

Commie Media’s anti-Hindu poison-Part 2 (Mediacrooks)

Rocket Fuel for a S&P 500 explosion (TRB)

Interview with Robert Shiller (WP)

Micro Dreams and Macro Delusions (AswathDamodaran)

Beating the market:Yes, it can be done (Economist)

Malcolm Gladwell’s real problem (USAToday)