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Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

A compendium of the most intellectual jokes (Reddit)

Photo gallery:From Sangh worker to Brand NaMo (IndiaToday)

Climbers recount murder on Nanga Parbhat (NationalGeographic)

Retirement homes in vogue in India (Reuters)

A deadly triangle-India,Pakistan and Afghanistan (Brookings)

Ford EcoSport Official Review (TeamBHP)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is not an Internet Billionaire (NYTimes)

In Pictures:India’s very own Man of Steel (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Lake City Udaipur (Ghumakkar)

Conspiracy (GreatBong)

Movie Review:Raanjhanaa (VigilIdiot)

The Mystery of Online Movie Ticketing (Rodinhoods)

Do more with Feedly RSS Reader (Labnol)

P V Narasimha Rao reinvented India.So why is he forgotten? (National)

The humble manoeuvre (Outlook)

Good is in the details (Newslaundry)

Uttarakhand:A model of disaster (Tehelka)

Article 370:The untold story (IDR)

Gold continues to glitter (Open)

I agree with Madhu Kishwar (Newslaundry)

How Solar can save India’s farmers (Smithsonian)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Physical gold buyers won’t get fooled again (ET)

Domestic natural gas price doubled (BS)

In India,gold related shares meltdown (WSJ)

Tata Tele in big trouble (FirstPost)

Brokers cheat, you need to be prepared ! (Subramoney)

For Gundlach, Gross timing bond market proves dicey (WSJ)

Calling an end to the correction (DailyReckoning)

Jeff Gundlach explains why the bond markets tumbled (BI)

Limits of quantification (Go2CIO)

7 reasons I dumped Facebook (Yahoo)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Why I sold out my portfolio completely (Prashant)

India is screwed (Firstpost)

Maharashtra mulls audit of every building (BS)

Tatas to pump 48,000 Crores into unlisted infra firms (Mint)

Falling rupee to offer no respite from FII selloffs (ET)

A SUV under Rs 6 Lakh-Ford Ecosport (Businessline)

Another ugly day for gold (Moneybeat)

Return to paradox-Another flight to Treasuries (DailyReckoning)

The overconfident investor moves markets (Yahoo)

Following the Fed (BigPicture)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Yet another reason to skip London (Firstpost)

Companies must buyback atleast 50% under new SEBI rules (ET)

The bond market rout has just begun (Mint)

Amitabh Bachchan puts his money in realty (MumbaiMirror)

How you can lose a lot of money (Subramoney)

Early buyers of inflation indexed bonds lose 5% in a month (CapitalMind)

EM Assets losing the race to US High Yield (WSJ)

11 expert tips to lose stress in 5 minutes (BI)

Exit from bond market is turning into a stampede (Dealbook)

Gold was a horrible investment from 1500 to 1965 (Atlantic)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Biral heiress lends to poor (Mint)

Growing fraud in corporate India worries regulators (BS)

Employees queue up to consult astrologers (ET)

Top 50 dividend paying stocks in India (Anand)

Its becoming harder and harder to deny the power of the index fund (BI)

The best analyst note we have ever seen (Moneybeat)

Lets play “Would you rather?” (NihonCassandra)

Rajdeep’s disaster games (Mediacrooks)

Are blogs outdated? (NYTimes)

Inside Ben Bernanke’s Doomsday Device (DailyReckoning)