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Offbeat Sunday Reads:June 17, 2012

Some interesting offbeat Sunday Reads:

Travelogue: Drive to Kuari Pass (Team BHP)

Movie Review: Ferrai Ki Sawaari (BharadwajRangan)

Spoof:Pranabda launches own Facebook Page (UnrealTimes)

My father and me:A Russian spy story (GQ)

The moral failure of our billionaire philantrophists (TheAwl)

Cocaine Inc:How a drug cartel makes its Billions (NYTimes)

Daddy:My father’s last words (Esquire)

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What was that again?

“Having fallen from respected insider to convicted inside trader, Mr. Rajat Gupta has now exchanged the lofty board room for the prospect of a lowly jail cell,” Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan said in a statement.

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El-Erian:Greece Desperately Needs Bailouts

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Cartoon by Sudhir Tailang:Mamata Mulayam Saga

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Weekend Readings:June 16, 2012

Some interesting reading for the weekend:

The gangsters are back in UP (Tehelka)

Why is India Inc crying? (Open)

How the ‘Good Guy’ defence failed Rajat Gupta (NYMag)

Indo-US Relations:Less than allies, more than friends (Economist)

Homeless man turned millionaire gives the best advice I got (Forbes)

China’s abortion scandal (NewYorker)

Lance Armstrong’s last stand (Slate)