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The unsuccessful investor is best friends with hope

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The Letter that installed toilets in Indian Trains

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.
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Weekend Mega Linkfest: June 20,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Hafeez Contractor:The slumdog millionaire architect (NYTimes)

Luis Suarez: Soccer’s most beautiful player (ESPN)

10 New Indian travel destinations you have not heard of (CondeNast)

Who will be India’s Alibaba- Snapdeal or Flipkart? (Forbes)

Poems:Draupadi Asks (Caravan)

Infosys:The burden of legacy (Open)

Pakistan’s Domestic Jihad (IndianDefenceReview)

Barack Obama and the Three Hundred (NewYorker)

The new map of the Middle East (Atlantic)

When the World Cup is on, stock markets go quiet (Bloomberg)

Disintegration of Iraq had its roots in World War I (Smithsonian)

Arabian Sea takes revenge on Mumbai (MumbaiBoss)

InPictures:How Modi solved Goa MLA Brazil trip controversy (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue:Exploring Karnataka (TeamBHP)

10 Things you should include in your website (Labnol)

What are some mind blowing facts about Indian Railways? (Quora)