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Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Punters should make small bets till RBI action on Jan 29 (FirstPost)

Fund houses rush to launch Rajiv Gandhi Equity scheme (FE)

FII shareholding in Indian firms at 6 year high (Mint)

The ‘parent’ takes over at the Mahindra Group (BS)

Dilip Kumar’s brothers drag him to court (MumbaiMirror)

Soon outer Delhi may grow vertically (ET)

IRFC tax free bonds issue details (OneMint)

Why Jeremy Grantham is wrong (DailyReckoning)

Its comforting (TRB)

How should Bill Acman and Carl Icahn settle this thing? (Dealbreaker)

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Mukesh Ambani sends a defamation notice to news channels (Newslaundry)

Is this really what we deserve ? (Open)

The desi cow is almost extinct (Tehelka)

The saffron string (Outlook)

SEBI to disclose all information related to PMS (Moneylife)

Are old iphones a gateaway drug ? (MarketWatch)

Why we should memorize (NewYorker)

Iraqi Sunnistan (ForeignAffairs)

The Komodo Dragon is an all purpose killing machine (Smithsonian)

Rahul Gandhi:Show your hand (Economist)

Why you are not a leader (Forbes)

The women of Mexico’s drug war (Atlantic)

How to drive safely in a fog (TeamBHP)

The Algerian tragedy (ProjectSyndicate)

Life lessons Bollywood has taught me (UnrealTimes)

Congratulations Sir (GreatBong)

Could Cyril Ramaphosa be the best leader that South Africa never had? (NYTimes)

Aaron Swartz:Memory to myth (Verge)

Exit Interview:Timothy Geithner (NewRepublic)

Hollywood Publicity:The Rules of the Game (VQR)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

How a Blue Ocean strategy helped the Murugappa group (BusinessLine)

The return of the gold smuggler (WSJ)

Mid cap shares tumble on margin calls (BS)

Before Berkshire:Investment Ideas inspired by the Buffett partnership (SeekingAlpha)

Wealth Creators:2008-2013 (Altais)

Bill Gates hates cash.Here’s why (BusinessWeek)

Ray Dalio: Cash will move into “stuff” in 2013 (MarketFolly)

Stories,control,fundamentals and panic (Psyfitec)

Seven Lessons from Apple (TRB)

Carl Icahn:Better investor than Warren Buffett (Kiplinger)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

5 ways to reduce India’s appetite for gold (Firstpost)

Investors balk at HUL’s higher royalty fees (WSJ)

I rather have India’s problems than that of the west:Anshu Jain (ET)

The story of a horse that eats grass and not oats (Mint) (Hattip Ajay)

Mukesh Ambani acquiring land in Raigad for University (BS)

5 ways to get share investing ideas (OneMint)

Jeff Gundlach warns Apple could go as low as $300 (BusinessInsider)

The appeal of investments that cost more and return less (NYTimes)

Morgan Stanley employees call its own products “Shitbag” (Dealbreaker)

5 kinds of companies Facebook’s new search engine could crush (Wired)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Mobile firms threaten to stop roaming services (BusinessLine)

Recent Govt moves to pressurise RBI on interest rates (MoneyControl)

Flurry of India stock sales loom (WSJ)

Chidambaram signals another dream budget in February (Mint)

Stung by airlines, travel portals change track (BS)

India’s ultimate insider looks for outsider status (Bloomberg)

On the absence of formal technical analysis education (Philpearlman)

Howie’s stock market investing lessons (HowardLindzon)

The real story behind Germany’s gold recall (DailyReckoning)

Best Investing lesson of the past 5 years (BusinessInsider)