Pearls Of Wisdom From Buffet And Munger

http://m.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05/15/dont-miss-these-14-things-charlie-munger-said-at-t

Breakfast Joints Across The Country

http://www.indiatimes.com/culture/food/13-breakfast-joints-in-india-you-need-to-wake-up-for-231327.html - the 2nd half in the list should be tried out.

Tasty Corner in Calcutta: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/tasty-corner-gariahat/maps#tabtop

Shyam Sweets in Delhi: https://www.zomato.com/ncr/shyam-sweets-chawri-bazar-new-delhi

Prakash Restaurant, Shivaji Park, Dadar: Bombay: https://www.zomato.com/mumbai/prakash-restaurant-dadar-shivaji-park

I Want My Daughter To Trust Taxi Drivers

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/soul-curry/I-want-my-daughter-to-be-able-to-trust-men/articleshow/47296341.cms

Dress Code Is Important

Violation not allowed by Modi: 

http://www.financialexpress.com/article/miscellaneous/ias-officer-warned-for-wearing-sunglasses-while-meeting-narendra-modi-chhattisgarh/72778/

Gender = And Modi

http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/despitebeingwomen-we-do-scrape-by-mr-modi/article7310087.ece

Please don't be like us Pakistanis by Mahmud Ali Durrani: 

http://www.catchnews.com/politics-news/dear-india-don-t-be-like-us-please-a-friend-from-pakistan-1445604068.html

Pakistan News

Consumerism in Pakistan: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-318014-Collectivism-and-consumerism

Terrorism in Pakistan: m.thehindu.com/news/national/everyone-can-be-a-target-in-pakistan-says-fatima-bhutto/article7206935.ece/

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-318724-Who-is-killing-us

About India in Pakistani Text Books: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/19-Jan-2015/pakistani-textbooks-and-the-lies-they-teach (Note that the writer is a Pakistani)

Updated on 31-Mar-2016
RAW Attacks in Pakistan: http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/109291-Indian-engineers-visit-to-Pak-sugar-mills-a-routine-matter

Does this lady ever write a bad post? 

• http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/109211-Stories-from-statistics 
• https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/161962-Crawling-out-of-the-woodwork

http://www.pakdestiny.com/kamila-hayat-exposes-low-intellectual-level-of-hamid-mir-and-other-anchors-in-water-car-case/ (article by another person Parvez Hoodbhoy on the same subject: http://tribune.com.pk/story/416542/the-water-car-fraud/)

Updated on Jun 21 2016: 
Porous borderhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/print/129438-The-porous-border

Going Minimal

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/most-popular-posts/

Additional reading:
http://Calmisc.blogspot.com/2012/01/financial-prudence.html

Organic Farming In Chennai

http://m.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/straight-from-the-field/article7197648.ece/

People Having Glass Ceilings

http://iveybusinessjournal.com/cracking-the-glass-ceiling/

Additional reading:
http://iveybusinessjournal.com/making-the-big-behaviour-breakthrough/

Vaadi Raasaathi

Of late I have been listening to this song apparently from the movie "36 Vayadhinile" - each time I listen to it, I am shell shocked. Since when did this kind of tune become categorized under music? What was the music director thinking when he recorded this song? 

I am still dazed. Here is the review of the movie: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/36-Vayadhinile/movie-review/47287365.cms. But that song!!!!!

Hats off to Composer: Santhosh Narayanan and Singer: Lalitha Vijaykumar.

IIT and IIN

Is academics stressful in IIT? http://www.quora.com/Is-life-at-IIT-stressful-from-academic-point-of-view

Shortcoming of academics in IIT: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-shortcomings-in-academics-at-IITs

Graduated from IIN?: http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-mock-IINs

EB Rates in Tamil Nadu

http://vaartaahaa.blogspot.in/2014/12/tn-new-electricity-tariff-rates-tamil.html

http://tneb.tnebnet.org/tariff_new.html: Tariff calculator 

Beauty Vs Trustworthiness

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/51955/20150510/women-who-enhance-photos-themselves-dating-sites-considered-attractive-catfish.htm

Ford Insulted Ratan Tata Apparently

http://auto.ndtv.com/news/ratan-tata-was-humiliated-by-ford-reveals-colleague-746893?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=hindustantimescom-livemint

Inna Cheidarai oruththal Avarnaana

Nannayam Cheidu Vidal

Tatas went on to buy JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) from Ford. We never know what's going to happen next, do we?

Talat Mehmood

An article on Talat Mehmood. Apparently he sang in Bengali under the name "Tapan Kumar". 

Airlines - Emirates, AIr India

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2015/05/07/emirates-airline-profit-jumps-40-amid-looming-threat-of-protectionism/70936530/

A friend of mine asked me the name of the busiest airport. 

The busiest airports are Atlanta, Chicago and Dubai based on a google search. And then I read the link mentioned above about the Emirates' profits. And frequently I read about the profitability of Air India. And how buying dreamliner 787 was a mistake and how the loading of the dreamliner flights in Air India is about 50% while it was expected to be 70%+.

I wonder how airlines like Emirates and Singapore Airlines do so well while Air India continues to remain in darkness.

How Not To Make A Presentation

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-things-best-speakers-never-say-jeff-haden?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-193-null&midToken=AQFGTBkk8hSJtQ&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=1jwbuTGg3ZXSI1

Negotiation - Coursera - MOOC

https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills/lecture/o4ajG/should-i-negotiate

https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills/lecture/xaCpq/a-position-based-or-interest-based-negotiation

Additional reading: http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/negotiating-the-top-ten-ways-that-culture-can-affect-your-negotiation/#.U6nh-bHyRqw

The course had some interesting points to make:

1. Let's say I am a CXO in a company that has made some important discovery (say a mineral find). During the time when the public is not aware of the discovery...my buying further stocks of the company will amount to insider trading and illegal. We all know this. But if I buy some land from a farmer in that area (the farmer doesn't know of the mineral discovery) - then the buying of the land at, what is a cheap price, is quite legal. 
2. When I have quoted $300K to another person for the sale of my house (for which I have a set a reserve price of $250k in my mind and this is not known to the other party), the other person asks me whether I would consider a price of $260k - I say "NO". I am not supposed to have committed a fraud. A fraud as defined as presenting a data with intent to deceive. Note that I did intend to deceive by saying "No" - but then apparently during negotiation one is allowed these kind of "lies" and hence this is not a fraud.

Hmm. Both the  points don't sit well with me. I am neither able to agree nor wholeheartedly disagree. The points that comes to my mind is how many more varieties (such as the two examples above) are there which I am not comfortable with but which are considered normal / acceptable by many other people?

Books On Kindle And Amazon And "Swindle" And Revenue

Estimating Kindle book Sales: 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/04/02/estimating-kindle-e-book-sales-for-amazon/

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/amazon-kindle-swindle

Sniper (Shanina) At The Gates - World War II

http://www.ozy.com/flashback/soviet-killer-supreme/38593?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=INTL%20-%20All%20Clicks%20ALL%20Devices

Salman: 1st Of The Four Khans Bites The Dust

http://www.financialexpress.com/article/industry/companies/rs-200-crore-investment-under-threat-as-salman-khan-awaits-may-6-judgement-day/69298/

http://www.financialexpress.com/article/markets/indian-markets/salman-khan-convicted-in-hit-and-run-case-mandhana-eros-intl-share-prices-plunge/69838/