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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 10,2017

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Ambani has made the business world’s most aggressive bet (Economist)

The Amit Shah strategy in Uttar Pradesh (5Forty3)

Is it the end of the road for Maoists? (Rahul Pandita)

How long will the Trump Bull Market last (New Yorker)

Looking back on my journey from Bihar to US (Amitava Kumar)

Uber CEO Vs Uber Driver (Bloomberg)

The Dog Whistlers (Media Crooks)

Donald Trump’s worst deal (New Yorker)

The secret to material success (Forbes)

Seth Hukumchand’s 1919 Gold Daimler (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Shivpal Yadav’s tandav (Gossip Guru)

The changing Shillong (IQ)

Travelogue: Secrets of the North East (Nat Geo)

The 12 best chocolate shops in Paris (Lux Travel)

50 utterly unexpected facts about Japan (BrightSide)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: March 03,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The quiet rise of BSP in UP (Open)

The Rs.41,000 Crore trick called IMFL (Outlook)

Financiers fight over the American Dream (New Yorker)

The Mysteries of Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple (Mint)

Rajiv Gandhi Trust’s land grab (Swarajya)

Billionaire Robert Merer’s war on Mainstream Media (Guardian)

Trump,Putin and the new Cold War (New Yorker)

Veer Savarkar Unplugged (Mint)

The case for going to bed at 2:30 am (Vox)

Trump’s impact on Indian Marriage Market (Scroll)

Travelogue: Jungle Mahal,WB (TeamBHP)

Pakistan’s romance with Bollywood (DailyO)

The Magician from Madras (IQ)

The best India holidays to take in March (NatGeo)

18 Incredible things you can do only in Dubai (Brightside)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: February 23,2017

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

Maniac Killers of the Bangalore IT Department (Bloomberg)

The Fortune Teller (IQ)

The ‘other America’ (Guardian)

Facebook Algorithm is watching you (Atlantic)

Crisis in Indian Higher Education (Open)

Let your children be bored (WeForum)

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a global Islamist (Tufail Ahmed)

How did Gandhi’s murderers vanish? (Daily Mail)

Auto Talk: 2017 Honda City Facelift (Team BHP)

Arnab’s Moneybag (Gossip Guru)

On NDTV’s Ravish Kumar (Media Crooks)

Profile: Fearless Nadia (BI)

The Courtesan who inspired Pondicherry’s official emblem (NatGeo)

Bengali Macho (Sandip Roy)

Fake My Trip (Reiner Riedler)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: February 17,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

BJP in pole position in UP (5Forty3)

Where are India’s Jerry Maguires? (ET)

How Navinder Singh Sarao was scammed out of $ 50 Million (Bloomberg)

GS replaces 600 Equity Traders with 200 Computer Engineers (MIT)

How the BHIM app was built in only 3 weeks (YS)

How Anna Nicole Smith became America’s punchline(Buzzfeed)

NYTimes claws its way to the future  (Wired)

Telegraph journalist on his sacking (DailyO)

Travelogue:Epic 2 weeks in New Zealand (TeamBHP)

Auto Talk: Toyota Fortuner Vs Competition (TeamBHP)

Don’t waste your time on networking events (HBR)

Going part time with your startup (Wharton)

Mukesh Ambani cracks a joke (FE)

Rahul Gandhi gets it (Gossip Guru)

The best resorts in Maldives (Lux Travel)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: February 03,2017

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Why Indian e-commerce has hit a fork in the road (Haresh Chawla)

How the Finance Ministry pressurized Banks to help Mallya (IT)

Shah Rukh Khan-The Khanate without end (Outlook)

Trump Week One (Great Bong)

The Obama-Trump truce is already over (Atlantic)

How to disagree (Paul Graham)

History: Kalmykia’s long goodbye (Open Democracy)

Why Hollywood as we know it is over (Vanity Fair)

How Israeli Tech Firms do business in Saudi Arabia (Bloomberg)

Ownership Report: Land Rover Discovery Sport (TeamBHP)

Gossip: Delhi Tycoon & Modi (Gossip Guru)

The importance of Basant Panchami (Swarajya)

The orangutans of Indonesia (NatGeo)

How a 26 year old overcame severe depression (BI)

Why it’s plain stupid to buy a house in India (HP)