Category: Links

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend :

Who’ll wear the shorts? (Outlook)

Orphans of the great Republic (Open)

Fallout of Sahara’s defiance (MoneyLife)

Madhu Trehan interviews William Dalrymple (NewsLaundry)

The rapes will go on (Tehelka)

Some thought provoking links on the Delhi rape case (JaiArjun)

The last superstar (BharadwajRangan)

How to handle a power window failure (TeamBHP)

Managing wealth the modest way (DhirendraKumar)

Forgotten benefactor of humanity (Atlantic)

Will Mukesh Ambani disrupt the telecom market again? (ForbesIndia)

Why Microsoft maybe a classic Value Trap (BusinessWeek)

Book Review:Through Eastern eyes (Caravan)

Movie Review: Django Unchained (NewYorker)

The never ending war (Economist)

The sharp, sudden decline of America’s middle class (RollingStone)

Interview with a Ginza hostess (Rumpus)

Spoof:Abhijit Mukherjee screams at a portrait of MonaLisa (UnrealTimes)

Love, Dad (LettersofNote)

Bollywood gossip of the week (RajeevMasand)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Five challenges for Cyrus Mistry (Mint)

As tax free bonds flop, PSU’s turn to private placements (FE)

Manmohan Shetty’s 1,650 Crore bet (BS)

Following the cash trail (ValueResearch)

Curating your financial life (AbnormalReturns)

What does January mean to you? (AllStarCharts)

2012 was good for stocks , bad for stock pundits (WSJ)

Is US economic growth over? (RobertGordon)

7 Retirement planning mythis debunked (Yahoo)

Top 10 YouTube videos of 2012 (USAToday)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Local investors sell stocks worth 55000 Crores (Mint)

How MindTree sorted out its problems (ET)

Indian origin hedge fund manager indicted in insider trading (FE)

Bitter season awaits UP’s sugar mills (BS)

New Business for insurers continues decline in 2012 (CapitalMind)

My son will take care of me in my old age (Subramoney)

Columbia’s Business School Dean’s rate is 1200 $ per hour (RollingStone)

The score today:Apple 280, Microsoft 38 (JeffMatthews)

Don’t mistake investing folklore for personalized advice (NYTimes)

The 100 best lists of all time (NewYorker)

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Former IT stars try to restore past glimmer (Mint)

Hopes build up for a rebound in the real estate sector (ET)

It may be time to write off real estate stocks permanently (DhirendraKumar)

Flat in Society:Nomination (Subramoney)

IIFCL tax free bonds (OneMint)

The entitlement cliff (BillBonner)

Garbage time (TRB)

Jack Bogle’s chart of the year (BusinessInsider)

Ensuring liquidity in the portfolio (CIEL)

End of world predictions is for suckers only (BigPicture)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Gold still a good bet for investors (ET)

IRDA set to revamp life cover rules (Mint)

The truth about wealth (FE)

Only excise cut,removal of fuel price anomaly can boost car sales (Firstpost)

Greeks can’t find Euros to buy heating oil (Bloomberg)

What the MOIL IPO teaches us about IPO investing (OneMint)

7 lessons from building a lifestyle business (Mindvalleyinsights)

Smart money has many forms (Ivanhoff)

When active beats passive (RickFerri)

Enter the financial blogosphere (TRB)