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Weekend Mega Linkfest: July 28, 2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Decoding Nitish Kumar’s politics (Jaggi)

BJP have conquered the Hindi heartland (Scroll)

India’s women cricketers have changed the game forever (Open)

Kashmir: ISIS is the new code (Outlook)

The hijacking of a $ 100 Million Super Tanker (Bloomberg)

Inside NASA’s mission to the North Pole (Guardian)

Sadiq Khan: London Mayor (New Yorker)

Yazidi women: Slaves of the ISIS (Guardian)

The Aristoprats (Indian Quarterly)

Startup : Coin Tribe (YS)

Travelogue: Mizoram (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Dunkirk (Great Bong)

Ownership Review: My pre-worshipped Jetta (Team BHP)

The most nostalgic song ever (Munna De) & the translation

Gossip: How RaGa messed up his meeting with Chinese Ambassador (GG)

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Cartoon

How some great fortunes are made

Source: John Morris

 

Front page cartoon, “How some great fortunes are made” from Chicago Tribune, one month before 1929 stock market crash

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Infographics

Infographic: Political Map of India

Reminds me of the famous 1938 poster of Hitler

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer (‘One People, One Nation, One Leader’).

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Linkfest: July 28, 2017

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Interview with Basant Maheshwari (ET)

Instagram is tipping off India’s Taxman (Bloomberg)

Flows to Floats (Nooresh)

Stunning Annual Report of Games Workshop (Amit)

Daily Economics: Running a paan stall in Mumbai (Scroll)

How Hindustan Zinc became the world’s 2nd largest zinc producer (Forbes)

Stock Talk: Symphony (Forbes)

Rebuttal to Howard Marks (TRB)

Do you have a money mind? (Monevator)

11 Great American companies who have lost the narrative (247 Wall Street)

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Excerpts

Four Questions to ask Management

  1. How’s business?
  2. Really?
  3. Could you expand on that?
  4. Why?

wrote Tim Hanso