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Linkfest:Jun 23, 2014

Some stuff that I am reading today morning:

Inside the Network 18 Takeover (Mint)

Method in Kishore Biyani’s madness (BS)

Infosys CEO Shibulal owns 700+ apartments in the US (ET)

SEBI opens exit door for LIC (BL)

Muthoot Finance NCD-Should you invest? (ApnaPlan)

The success stories of ordinary people in investing (Subramoney)

Use the power of ice cream to save for your financial future (MoneyCrush)

Fund Managers are hooked on a powerful drug:Momentum (Barrons)

The rise of the Gulf carriers (Financialist)

Young people don’t trust financial advisers (BuzzFeed)

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The unsuccessful investor is best friends with hope

Post author By Raoji
Post date June 22, 2014
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Ads

Is your drinking water vegetarian?

Post author By Raoji
Post date June 22, 2014
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There are ads that are stupid and then there are ads that take your breath away.

Tweets

Ever heard of a monopoly making losses

Post author By Raoji
Post date June 21, 2014
2 Comments on Ever heard of a monopoly making losses

Ever heard of business,a monopoly,100 cr cust.base,100% sales on adv.pymt-sometimes 2mths, Cap Util >100%,still makes loss Indian Railways

— Ashish Chugh (@hiddengemsindia) June 21, 2014

Letters

The Letter that installed toilets in Indian Trains

Post author By Raoji
Post date June 20, 2014
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For more than fifty years after the formation of the Indian Railways, there was one crucial element that was missing on the nation’s trains: toilets.

Passengers had to wait till till the stations to answer the call of nature, and it was not until a passenger named Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this angry yet amusing letter in 1909 that toilets were installed on Indian trains.

From Quora