Category: Links

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The world’s scariest graph (Atlantic)

Multiple organ failure in the Congress (MediaCrooks)

The Starbucks of Pot (Slate)

How a war hero became a serial bank robber (BuzzFeed)

Manmohan Singh resigns, demands N Srinivasan follows suit (UnrealTimes)

The legacy of Rituparno Ghosh (GreatBong)

3 Simple Steps to create your company logo (Rodinhood)

How much customs duty you have to pay for importing into India (Labnol)

How Mumbai lost its open spaces (MumbaiBoss)

Cruise Ship Holiday for dummies (TeamBHP)

How comedy can make villains look ridiculous (Jabberwock)

Why is Ranbaxy selling fake drugs not getting media coverage? (Newslaundry)

What the H1B proposals mean for Indian firms (ForbesIndia)

Mr.Li and the three idiots (IDR)

Understanding N Srinivasan (Open)

Why was Nand Kumar Patel killed? (Tehelka)

How Android got inside everything (BusinessWeek)

Obituary: Heinrich Rohrer (Economist)

Why did criminals trust Liberty Reserve (NewYorker)

21 quotes from Henry Ford (Forbes)

 

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Is our public debt a ponzi? (BL)

Cash transfer may not get Congress a win in 2014 (FirstPost)

Cheaper health cover option (BS)

Ankeet Chavan’s fiancee will not abandon him (MumbaiMirror)

Former trader bares all in titillating Wall Street Memoir (NYPost) (Hattip: LordLudus)

Costing and Pricing Explained (Subramoney)

When a buyback looks like executive pay (Reuters)

The new R&D (TRB)

What do you control? (BigPicture)

Why you never learn from your investment mistakes (MotleyFool)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Tax on purchase of immovable property (Mint)

OFS flood of Rs13, 500 Crore to dampen rally (ET)

Royal Enfield Bullet 500 Review (BL)

The fear of buying into highs (CapitalMind)

Complex economic machinery (BillBonner)

15 Startling photos of pigs in China (BI)

Profitability Matters (MorningStar)

In Dubai, abandoned luxury cars is a problem (MessyNessy)

Hedge Fund Advertising-Some punch lines (NihonCassandra)

Entitled Generation (Subramoney)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

UPA’s corrupt but so are we (BL)

Stock Investors in India bypass IPOs (WSJ)

Equity MFs busy selling in May (BS)

FAQs on Inflation Indexed Bonds (RBI)

From Logan to Duster (ET)

India cows find patrons in US (NYTimes)

Beware of sideways markets (InstitutionalInvestor)

Advice on life by Calvin and Hobbes Creator (Brainpickings)

5 Deadly sins on Wall Street (MarketWatch)

Taking the pulse of tough times (DailyReckoning)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Amway India CEO arrested in Kerala (BL)

India gold import premiums halve (WSJ)

Gain by investing in duration bond funds (ET)

Mahendra Karma and his vigilantism (Mint)

Inheritance:How do I deal with it? (Subramoney)

The paradox of dumb money (TRB)

7 Easy Steps to invest like Warren Buffett (PragCap)

Barkha fails to evolve Imran Khan (Mediacrooks)

Cooking the gold books (DailyReckoning)

How well do you know legendary investor Cliff Asness? (Dealbreaker)