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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 31 January, 2020

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

IBM & IIT Kanpur (Print)

Why Trump’s plan for Palestine will not work (Guardian)

Brexit: Sadness & Relief (BBC)

The secret history of the 9/11 investigation (Pro Publica)

Uighur Muslims in China (NY Times)

The Woman shaking up the diamond industry (New Yorker)

Google’s Quest for Quantum Supremacy (Wired)

The making of a Maasai safari guide (SCMP)

History: Bakhtiyar Khilji’s disastrous expedition (LHI)

The 1948 anti-Brahmin Riots (True Indology)

The 10 worst Indian cars of the last decade (Team BHP)

Pizza Maavu (J Mathrubootham)

We need to talk (Guernica)

The true history behind the ‘1917’ movie (Smithsonian)

Newer Delhi (Open)

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The Narasimha Rao Effect

Source : Economic Survey of India 2019-20

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Leaked: India Inc Reaction to Budget

Source: Ramesh Kumar

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Linkfest: 31 January, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

India’s most abused tax payers (TOI)

Kotak Bank’s Promoter stake issue resolved (MC)

Arvind Krishna named IBM CEO (BS)

Global firms queue up to board private trains (Mint)

How DHFL diverted 12,700 Cr to shadowy firms (Rediff)

How I thought I would run my poultry business (Revert2Invert)

Revisiting my Tesla valuation (Aswath Damodaran)

Buffett says goodbye to his newspaper empire (Bloomberg)

DIY Retirement Investors have a low cost friend: Newsletters (NYTimes)

You can’t fire your investor (A VC)