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Weekend Mega Linkfest:October 30,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Passion is over rated and goals are for losers (Scott Adams)

Can BJP make a comeback in Bihar (Swarajya)

How the Lotus will bloom in Bihar (Gossip Guru)

RSS:The Bhagwat Way (Open)

The end of innocence (Haresh Chawla)

The backstory of the SEBI-FMC merger (Forbes)

Interview with founder of T.G.I. Fridays (Edible Geography)

Official Review:Mahindra TUV 300 (Team BHP)

End of honeymoon period for foodtech startups? (YS)

How I met my co-founder (Rodinhoods)

How ISIS spread in the Middle East (Atlantic)

Movie Review:Titli (Wire)

How Yudhishtira won over the God of Death (DailyO)

12 Street Foods you have to eat in Bengaluru (BuzzFeed)

9 Phrases Smart People never use in a conversation (Forbes)

 

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: October 23,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Goodbye Viru (Great Bong)

The incredible rise,fall and rise of Lalu Yadav (Saba Naqvi)

Sam Pitroda: The original quiz (Open)

M S Subbulakshmi: Misunderstood (Caravan)

Find the person behind the email address (Labnol)

Inside Stanford Business School’s sex scandal (Vanity Fair)

Travelogue:Mysore & Coorg (Team BHP)

A startup called Cityflo (YS)

Why don’t elephants get cancer (Wire)

Using story telling skills to be a super salesperson (FF)

The dark side of Durga Puja (DailyO)

The hypocrisy of Rajdeep Sardesai (OpIndia)

How we killed the Kaoboys (Swarajya)

How friendships change in adulthood (Atlantic)

Robert Mugabe and the destruction of Zimbabwe (New Yorker)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:October 16,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Honey,I shrunk your bank branch (Haresh Chawla)

The Half-Deserted Streets of MysorePak Liberals (Sandeep)

Returning of Akademi Awards is politics by other means (Arun Jaitley)

No Godhra means No Modi (DailyO)

Piyush Pandey:Fortune Seller (Open)

The most dangerous political operative in America (Bloomberg)

The death and life of a great British pub (Guardian)

Visiting  a cattle market in Karachi (R&K)

China is not collapsing (Project Syndicate)

Travelogue:5500 Kms,6 States & Butan (TeamBHP)

Durga Pujo Short Story:Mahishashur (Great Bong)

Muhuratmaza: A startup to book poojas online (YS)

Spoof:Bobby Jindal lies to his parents (The Onion)

The most mysterious star in our galaxy (Atlantic)

How school shootings catch on (Malcolm Galdwell)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest:October 09,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s thought cops are angry with Modi (India Facts)

Siddhartha Lal of Eicher Motors-The Braveheart (Forbes)

Inside Pimco-A tale of greed and betrayal (FT)

Russia’s most infamous motorcycle club (Rolling Stone)

First,lets get rid of all the bosses (New Republic)

Inside Syria’s death machine (Guardian)

The coming turmoil in Latin America (Atlantic)

A ride to Chikmagalur (Team BHP)

On the Nankhatai biscuit (Scroll)

How I used ‘The Force’ to save my business (James)

The Brutal economics of being a Yoga Teacher (NYMag)

Why you miss the Indian poor in Brazil (DailyO)

Owaisi’s BJP connection (Gossip Guru)

Top lies spread by Indian media in Sept 2015 (OpIndia)

Aarushi case:Interview with Hemraj’s wife (Newslaundry)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 2 October,2015

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Old Money’s 7 Essential Ways to stay rich (Bloomberg)

The Chennai born scientist who exposed Volkswagen (Outlook)

The narrow exit road for India’s billion $ startups (Haresh Chawla)

The pink revolution (Wire)

Demolishing the Aurangzeb Apologists Cabal (Op India)

How to have 106 Babies (GQ)

Vegas on the Black Sea (R&K)

The IKEA attack (WP)

Nike-Adidas Sneaker Wars (GQ)

Surviving an earthquake on Mt.Everest (QZ)

Ownership Report:Audi A6 (Team BHP)

Putin’s crooked road to Damascus (Project Syndicate)

Startup: GrabOnRent (YS)

23 Best Beaches of India (BuzzFeed)

What old age is really like? (New Yorker)