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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)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 13 February,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Booze,sex and the dark art of dealmaking in China (ChinaFile)

How Naresh Trehan became India’s most powerful doctor-businessman (Caravan)

Here is a $9 Trillion question (Bloomberg)

Why are Japan’s oldest businesses failing? (Atlantic)

11 real Valentine’s Day Horror Stories (NYMag)

How to defeat Putin in Ukraine (Slate)

Global illiteracy and its ghettos (Medium)

What we know about the earliest history of chocolate (Smithsonian)

The Fixer from Bharno,Jharkhand (Granta)

Leaked:Arvind Kejriwal’s Gmail Inbox (Unreal Times)

Travelogue:Pleasures of West Bengal (TeamBHP)

Movie Review:Shamitabh (Vigil Idiot)

How a 23 year old makes 500,000 $ a year tweeting random facts (BI)

A gay wedding in Mumbai (BuzzFeed)

Shazia Ilmi:Shekhar Gupta is a wheeler dealer (NDTV)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:February 06,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Rs.6,500 Crore mystery at Reliance Industries (Caravan)

Colonel M N Rai at the last post (IDR)

Second Hand Drive (Outlook Business)

20 Quality Stocks to invest in 2015 (Forbes India)

The hidden cost of a flexible job (Atlantic)

Is China preparing for a currency war? (Bloomberg)

Auto Review:Mercedes CLA Class (Team BHP)

Travelogue:Hornbill Festival,Nagaland (Ghumakkar)

What can parents do to prevent early puberty in girls (Smithsonian)

Why did Nehru & Ambedkar reject the word secular? (Newslaundry)

A Greek morality tale (Joseph Stiglitz)

Who are India’s best equity investors who invest for themselves? (Quora)

The reason behind Rahul Gandhi’s annoyance (Gossip Guru)

Saudi princes are patrons of Al-Qaeda (CBC)

The American who became a Sikh Yogini (Open)