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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 16 October, 2020

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The dangerous rise of Military AI (Guardian)

Bihar 2020 (Open)

The Panic Attack of the New York Power Brokers (Curbed)

On the Bhutto Dynasty (The Wire)

The rise & fall of Vanilla Ice (The Ringer)

An eviscerating email from a Founder to a Board Member (Ryan Caldbeck)

Tabassum Mansoor: The Negotiator who freed Indians in Libya (Hindu)

Gal Gadot as Cleopatra (TOI)

Why read? (Harold Bloom)

What’s the one thing that stayed with you from your first boss? (Ankur Warikoo)

How IAS Vikranth Raja restored 178 water bodies in 3 months (BI)

The origin of the phrase ‘Banana Republic’ (Siddharth Misra)

The Ambani Garage (Team BHP)

Remembering Jagjit Singh (Ajay Mankotia)

Photos Tribute: Bhanu Athaiya (Mint)

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Janhit Mein Jaari

Kahi Nati Hungama, Mota Bhai Maja Ma

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Mega Trend : Decline of TV Advertising

Source : ARK Investment Research
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Linkfest: 16 October, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

5 Reasons why Indian markets sold off (BS)

Centre to borrow on behalf of states to meet GST shortfall (FE)

Where PM Modi has invested his personal wealth (Mint)

PM Modi has established his reformist credentials (Arvind Panagariya)

Fraud at MFI Sambandh Finserv (Money Life)

Most likely profit may not be the most relevant profit (FNA)

Translating Private Equity into English (Anand Sridharan)

The coming shortage of Nickel (David Fessler)

Case Study: Electric Ride Hailing in India (Blu Smart)

The Breakout Tech startup of 2020 (Semil Shah)

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