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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 21 September, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Take Me Back to India (Guardian)

Sign of Difficult Times to come (Markandey Katju)

Mohan Bhagwat’s idea of India (Daily O)

Everything you know about obesity is wrong (HP)

Polarization in Poland (Atlantic)

Germany’s Summer of Identity Crisis (Atlantic)

Chinese on trains (SCMP)

The 57 Foot Bahubali statue (Team BHP)

Profile: Makhan Singh, Kenya’s Revolutionary (Madras Courier)

Amit Samarth: Cycle rider across Siberia (Hindu)

Muharram in the 19th Century (Dawn)

The Colonial Clubs of India (Open)

Local Indian Liquors (Outlook)

New Rahulism (Gossip Guru)

Non-stop comedy in my house (J Mathrubootham)

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Cartoon

How to survive the sharp drop

‘Our concept to survive the sharp drop is to give the stock-holders what they need most in these times…’ (Caption may be modified)
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Forwards

Some one hit a jackpot today

Source: WhatsApp Forward

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Links

Linkfest: 21 September, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

NSC,PPF will now fetch 8% (Mint)

33 Executives of ICICI Wealth quit to join WGC (ET)

BSE led power bourse set to disrupt market (BL)

Spring cleaning at India’s private sector banks (BQ)

Company Profile: Bajaj Auto (Forbes)

Company Profile: Rossell India (OB)

Interest rate signals (Subramoney)

Things have changed (Macro Tourist)

Warren Buffett on P/E Ratios (Value Investing World)

Diving Boards (Seth Godin)

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Observations

Babus Prefer Buybacks

On 18th Sept 2018, KIOCL Ltd. announced a buyback of it’s shares @ 170 Rs/share

What is amusing is that the Govt of India owns 99% of the Company !

So even the Govt prefers buybacks to dividends.