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Weekend Mega Linkfest:March 20,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The humiliation of Manmohan Singh (Open)

Rahul Gandhi: Invisible prince of a vanishing kingdom (Outlook)

North East: The Alaska of India (IDR)

Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? (Atlantic)

Your personality could be making you fat (NYMag)

A history of Richard Branson’s hare brained hobbies (Vanity Fair)

Who choose your career path for you? (Forbes)

The trickiest part of a penis transplant:Finding a donor (Smithsonian)

Is prayer the answer? (Aeon)

Inside Baghdad’s brutal battle against ISIS (Rolling Stone)

Israel’s victory of fear (Project Syndicate)

Disney’s 1 Billion $ bet on a magical wristband (Wired)

Facebook Wall: Bangladesh loses to India (Unreal Times)

Auto Talk: German cars, ridiculous prices (Team BHP)

Gossip: Gautam Thapar’s wife deliberately scratches neighbor’s Bentley (FS)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 13 March,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

I am not India’s daughter (Atlantic)

The three Khans of Bollywood (Outlook)

Jeremy Grantham on Oil (Outlook Business)

How Ikea took over the world (Fortune)

A tale of money,sex and power (Fortune)

My ISIS boyfriend (NYPost)

Imploding Bangladesh (Project Syndicate)

Shitphone: A love story (Medium)

Yo, what’s your beef? (Heartranjan)

Comic: When Arvind Kejriwal invoked his inner Rahul Gandhi (UnrealTimes)

Cartoon:Manmohan Singh’s Closet (Rahul Kanwal)

Travelogue: Kutch (TeamBHP)

15 Body Language Blunders to avoid (Forbes)

The 10 slides you need to pitch your business idea (LifeHacker)

What the seed funding boom means for a Series A (FirstRound)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 05,2015

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Top 10 Bollywood Holi songs (IE)

The story behind the festival of Holi (Sanskriti)

Arun Jaitley: The renovator (Open)

Humans lose as robots take Tokyo Stock Exchange (Bloomberg)

What keeps adultery site Ashley Madison ticking (Forbes India)

Netanyahu is a hypocrite and a bully (Slate)

How Essar used journalists to plant favorable stories (Caravan)

R K Pachauri was always a pervert (Gossip Guru)

What happened at the AAP National Executive Meeting (Mayank Gandhi)

Nirbhaya Documentary:Follow the money (MoneyLife)

Auto Review: 2015 Volkswagen Jetta (TeamBHP)

Obituary: Goodbye Spock (Great Bong)

How to remove password from PDF files (Labnol)

Travelogue: Dhuandhar Fall at Jabalpur (Ghumakkar)

Dead bodies on Mount Everest (Altered Dimensions)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:27 February,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Leaked:Internal emails of Essar Group (Outlook)

A 500 year old dispute threatens Modi’s plan to remake India (Bloomberg)

How the corridors of power work in Delhi (MoneyLife)

44 ways to make more money (Forbes)

Story of Bilcare-Market Cap of 3,000 Crores to 125 Crores (Outlook Business)

Vitamin B.S. (Atlantic)

Something is rotten in the Indian Navy (Open)

I know where that Malaysian Airlines plane is (NYMag)

Facebook Wall:People react to Prabhu’s Railway Budget (UnrealTimes)

Movie Review : Roy (Vigil Idiot)

Auto Review:Toyota Fortuner 4*4 Automatic (Team BHP)

Story of a young Indian (Rodinhoods)

The Al Thani Indian Maharaja Jewellery Collection (Forbes India)

6 popular phases that could wreak havoc on your finances (Forbes)

Where can you find the world’s best beer? (Trafalgar)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: February 20,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why is Aamir Khan such a pretentious prick? (Heartranjan)

Can Prabhu be the moderniser of Indian Railways? (Open)

Political gossip: Who is this Lady Minister? (GossipGuru)

What ISIS really wants (Atlantic)

Can Yemen be saved? (Project Syndicate)

Microsoft is the new Google, Google is the new Microsoft (Forbes)

Jonathan Ive: Apple’s greatest product (New Yorker)

Why Germany may not be bluffing in Greece (Bloomberg)

How did a white homeless kid become boss of Chinatown’s underworld? (RS)

Facebook Wall:Reactions to India’s win over Pakistan (Unreal Times)

Auto Review: Hyundai Verna 2015 (Team BHP)

Rentomojo.com: Plug-n-play kit for startups (Rodinhoods)

Movie Review:MSG (Great Bong)

The 30 under 30 class of 2014 (Forbes India)

Stunning portraits of women around the world (Independent)