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Some interesting offbeat reads for the weekend:

Gujarat is not done with its Caesar (Open)

The Iron Man begins to rust (Tehelka)

Simmering State (Caravan)

The Kings of Private Equity (ForbesIndia)

Jagdish Sharma’s Gandhi family connections (MoneyLife)

How I enabled the cult of Lance Armstrong (Atlantic)

Microsoft , Welcome back (Forbes)

Why white men support Romney (Slate)

Broken BRICs (RuchirSharma)

The scariest monsters of the sea (Smithsonian)

Can you teach risk arbitrage ? (FundooProf)

Making your car highway friendly (TeamBHP)

Businessmen arrested for praising Chidu’s son (UnrealTimes)

Thoughts on Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (JaiArjun)

This movie is rated Wu (GQ)

The Un Communicator (NewYorker)

Travelogue: Ride to Binsar (Ghumakkar)

Living in a man’s world (MumbaiBoss)

Clear eyes, full plate, can’t puke (GQ)

How do you raise a prodigy (NYTimes)

Does success spell doom for Homo Sapiens ? (Orion)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

It is RBI who is walking alone (FirstPost)

Taxman raids Nitin Gadkari’s companies (FE)

Wadia succession plan puts Jeh in Wadia’s seat (BS)

Rethinking SLR in Indian banking (AjayShah)

Chidambaram irked by Subbarao (Bloomberg)

AQR on making low vol better (Falkenblog)

The real beauty of a balanced fund (RantFinance)

Hurricanes and broken window fallacies (ActonInstitute)

Who needs facts anyway? (BigThink)

Why meteorologists are freaking out about Hurricane Sandy (BusinessInsider)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

RBI facing pressure to cut rates (Moneycontrol)

India lays out deficit targets (WSJ)

Congress will use direct cash transfers as main weapon in 2014 elections (ET)

The case for building rental housing (Mint)

Compound experience not just interest (Abnormal Returns)

Stunning images of Manhattan under water (BusinessInsider)

The incredible shrinking half life of Central Bank Action (ZeroHedge)

Passive Asset allocation Vs the world (CapitalSpectator)

Sunk costs and investing (AswathDamodaran)

A Russian ship with 700 tons gold gone missing (NYTimes)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Robert Vadra’s Midas Touch is based on inside info (FirstPost)

Rise of the tiger nation (WSJ)

Vijay Mallya will not sell family silver for Kingfisher Airlines (ET)

Variation in mutual fund return numbers (OneMint)

Struggle of a chicken entrepreneur (Rodinhoods)

Vikram Pandit was given 3 choices that he could not refuse (NYTimes)

Argentina’s stunning pari passu loss (Felix)

A global growth trend in pulses (DailyReckoning)

Investor finds interesting way to kick John Paulson when he is down (Dealbreaker)

Two things that are never discussed in the financial media (TRB)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Swat the Taliban (OutlookIndia)

Modi’s still there, innit? (IndrajitHazra)

Soaring gold prices taking a toll on Kanchipuram Saris (ForbesIndia)

All instant noodles brands are fooling you on health,nutrition (Moneylife)

The lives of Aarushi Talwar’s family and friends (Open)

For India Inc, the law is an ass (JerryRao)

I don’t want to be a toll bridge, I want to be its meaning (FundooProf)

Photos of Mitt Romney High School Pranks (VanityFair)

Ballmer is driving Microsoft off the cliff ! (Forbes)

Goldman Sachs bails on BRIC funds (SmartMoney)

China’s new kleptocracy (NewYorker)

Why is lynching so common in Nigeria? (Atlantic)

Indians saying crazy things about rape (Slate)

A Halloween massacre at the White House (Smithsonian)

Why Israel should trade its nukes (ForeignAffairs)

The lessons we can learn from Baniyas (Mint)

The island where people forget to die (NYTimes)

The kindness of beasts (Aeon)

Spoof:Rajat Gupta appeals for case to be transferred to Indian courts (UnrealTimes)

Bike Review:Ducati Diavel-forged in hell (TeamBHP)

Travelogue: Hyderabad-Nawabi Nagari (Ghumakkar)

Celebrating Durga Puja abroad means pining for the real thing (ArnabRay)

Food Review: Starbucks (MumbaiBoss)