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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Interesting readings

Posted on 12:30 by Unknown





Shekhar
Gupta
in the Indian Express on the most important
questions that the UPA-2 must now confront.



href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/noose-tightens-around-shadow-owners/854733/0">The
2G scandal is teaching us many things.

















href="http://www.livemint.com/2011/10/02210130/What-ails-asset-reconstruction.html">What
ails asset reconstruction firms?
and href="http://www.livemint.com/2011/10/09213318/Reconstructing-asset-reconstru.html?h=D">Reconstructing
asset reconstruction firms
by Tamal Bandyopadhyay in
Mint.



An
editorial
in the Indian Express about
SBI. Also
see
.



href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903648204576550012140202254.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Remaking
India, One T-Shirt at a Time
, by Alex Frangos in the Wall
Street Journal
, about an interesting firm ( href="http://capex.cmie.com/kommon/bin/sr.php?kall=wreport&cocode=371612&number=1">Brandix India
Apparel City) which is trying to break with the gloom on low-end
garment manufacturing in India.



A. K. Bhattacharya
in the Business Standard about Pulak Chatterjee taking over
as principal secretary to the PM.



href="http://www.livemint.com/2011/09/19214121/Revisiting-Sebi8217s-extrem.html">Revisiting
SEBI's extreme step
and href="http://www.livemint.com/2011/10/10211426/An-important-case-study-while.html?h=D">An
important case study while examining Jalan committee report
by
Mobis Philipose in Mint.



href="http://www.livemint.com/2011/09/26205822/Understanding-the-GDR-scam.html?h=D">Mobis
Philipose explains the SEBI order on some GDR issues.



The traffic of
good quality talks
in Delhi, in recent weeks, has been
surprisingly good.










The
Pakistan connection
by Michael Meacher, in
the Guardian, 22 July 2004.



You know a place is doing well when the performing arts
flourish. Martin
Petty
writes about a rock concert in Kabul.










I was happy to see an open access economics journal
-- Economics: The
Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
-- make it
to rank
160 amongst the economics journals
.



href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-the-china-an-economy-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-2011-10#ixzz1ZvZNevBW">China
Is An Economy On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
by Patrick
Chovanec in the Business Insider.



Making
top performers better
, by Atul Gawande, in New Yorker
magazine.



href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278758">The
end of the future
by Peter Thiel, on National Review
Online
, and href="http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation">Innovation
starvation
by Neal Stephenson, write about a theme that href="http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-century-and-last-one-report-card.html">I
also worry about.




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