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Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Raghuram Rajan: Line of Credit (Caravan)

Nandan Nilekani:Unique ID of his own (Outlook)

Pakistan:No country for minorities (Tehelka)

Rahul Gandhi dumps inner party democracy in Amethi (Open)

The man who saved the world by doing absolutely nothing (Atlantic)

The best way to get a cheap airplane ticket (BusinessWeek)

A brief history of Scotland Yard (Smithsonian)

China’s richest man wants to be a movie mogul (Economist)

Back to British (Mediacrooks)

The great Marijuana crash of 2011 (BI)

The largest food fraud in US history (BusinessWeek)

How one Iranian Commander is reshaping the Middle East (NewYorker)

Culture:Some interesting music tracks (MumbaiBoss)

How to buy a used car in India (TeamBHP)

Gangs of Social Media (Wired)

The worst of times (Dawn)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

NSEL auditor says company defaulted on loans for last 2.5 years (Moneycontrol)

Why Indians love it when Govt makes gold expensive (ET)

Nifty runs out of oxygen at Mt6200 (BS)

Financial Technologies:A Story of Guts,Glory and Guttered (Gaurav)

Cliff Asness:Pure Alpha is still worth it (TRB)

Larry Summers won’t burn in effigy (DailyReckoning)

Chanos undeterred by China growth (Bloomberg)

A behavioral bias for momentum strategies (TurnkeyAnalyst)

Keeping it simple:Trend and Valuation (MebaneFaber)

How to have a conversation about money (Lifehacker)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

FT’s audited statements unreliable says auditors who audited and signed it (Moneycontrol)

“All in the family earnings” and misgovernance in Asia (Beyonproxy)

India begins to win its demographic battle (Mint)

Cyrus Mistry buys shares in Tata Group companies (ET)

New postal act could deal blow to $2 Billion Courier Sector (BS)

Moily unveils austerity scheme to curb oil imports (FE)

Thoughts on Blackburry and Microsoft as a value trap (AswathDamodaran)

One big trader lost millions betting on Romney (WSJ)

China just bought 5% of Ukraine (Quartz)

The “Sample Flat” scam:Learn how builders trap property buyers (JagoInvestor)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Prem Watsa saves Blackberry (ET)

Blackberry strikes deal for $4.7 Billion (WSJ)

Supreme Court:Aadhar can’t be mandatory (Mint)

Analjit Singh strikes gold again (BS)

Why savvy brokers got trapped in NSEL (Moneycontrol)

Why nonsense in inevitable to Mr.Ananthamurthy (SandeepWeb)

Return of the iZombies (DailyReckoning)

Steve Cohen not the only one sick of his ex-wife (Dealbreaker)

Advisers are dead even on market timing (RickFerri)

How Mohnish Pabrai crushed the market (Forbes)

My close encounters with the lions in Botswana (Twistedswifter)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Top Builders sitting on Rs.58000 Crore Inventory (BS)

RBI Governor prescribes bitter pill (ET)

Is Arvind Kejriwal India’s Beppe Grillo? (Mint)

How to generate monthly inflows from tax free bonds? (OneMint)

The Devil’s Pygmies (Mediacrooks)

Spirit of Modi is detected everywhere (SwapanDasgupta)

Strategies that work but don’t work all the time (AlephBlog)

Top 10 Lessons that Sotheby’s can teach us about investing (BeyondProxy)

Gold Backed Money:Choice of a free society (HowardBuffett)

83 year old George Soros marries 42 year old Tamiko Bolton (BI)