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Some interesting reads for the weekend:

The Vadra scam (FirstPost)

The war we lost (Tehelka)

An atheist’s prayer (Open)

Can you take it Kumar Ketkar ? (Newslaundry)

The  insurgent (Caravan)

E Sreedharan:more than the metro man (Forbesindia)

Travelogue: Faujis trip to valley of flowers (TeamBHP)

Destruction comes to Aleppo(Atlantic)

Obama’s unspoken advantage (Newyorker)

The Little Known Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson (Smithsonianmag)

Everything you wanted to know about toi (mumbaiboss)

The woman who took the fall for jpmorgan chase (Nytimes)

Arab spring break (mensjournal)

The one eyed matador (GQ)

Some interesting links for the day:

Why FDI in insurance and pension is a win for UPA (Firstpost)

Small shareholders of Gujarat Gas have not got a raw deal (Mint)

SEBI mulling reduction in transaction costs (Moneycontrol)

How Does a Currency Drop 60% in 8 Days? Just Ask Iran (Atlantic)

The man who mistook a stock for his wife (FundooProfessor)

The new nonsense: leaving finance (BigPicture)

Respect the technicals (TRB)

Ages since I last posted.Some interesting links for the day:

Second Wave of big reforms today (Firstpost)

Nifty charts show the slowdown (Capitalmind)

Difficult to ignore Reliance Industries (Gaurav)

My rules on investing (Cassandra)

Census towns hit the property jackpot (Mint)

Who you calling the dumb money ? (TRB)

Work As A Game (LifeScoop)

Am travelling with limited access to the internet.But still was able to compile the mega linkfest for the weekend.Enjoy !!

The slow boat to high growth (Tehelka)

Pawar Vs Pawar again (Open)

Supreme Court exposes Speak Asia (Moneylife)

Warren Buffett’s private poker game (ForbesIndia)

Straight honest Parsi Money (OutlookIndia)

Thoughts on ageing stars (JaiArjun)

India: In search of a dream (Economist)

How Scientology determined Tom Cruise’s dating life (VanityFair)

Inside the India syndrome:How spirtuality is killing Westerners (Details)

The silence that preceded China’s Great Leap into Famine (Smithsonian) 

The lie factory (NewYorker)

Power,pollution and the internet (NYTimes)

Travelogue:Floating villages of Cambodia (Ghumakkar)

Mumbai police launches real time traffic app (TeamBHP)