Alpha Ideas

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Communist China & the Free World’s Future (Michael Pompeo)

Ashok Gehlot: The Desert Fox (Open)

Sudhanshu Trivedi: Naxals at your doorstep (You Tube)

Turkey & Egypt face off in Libya (ME Forum)

How a Star Professor built a distance learning empire (New Yorker)

Did Chinese deliberately dump capital in Indian startups? (Manish Sharma)

Arranged marriage process is a hell (Nikita Doval)

Zorawar Singh: Napoleon of the East (LHI)

Holidays in New Zealand (Team BHP)

Dear Mummy… (Madam Sanskari)

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Bajaj Finance’s flexi-loans move draws criticism (Mint)

Delisting of INEOS Styrosolution fails (Nigel DSouza)

Broking firms see rise in income (BS)

India restricts on public procurement from China (Rediff)

Retail giants want to partner with Kiranas (FE)

There goes the $ (TRB)

Pang of uncertainty spurs profit taking (Marc Chandler)

What Amazon is doing in financial services (Climateer)

The poison at Pharma Cos (Forbes)

Inventing Narratives (Seth Godin)