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Sunday, 25 November 2012

Interesting readings

Posted on 08:57 by Unknown





A talk by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.



Governance
2.0
by Ila Patnaik, on the notions of autonomy and
independence for agencies like the CVC.



Trampling on the individual in
India:
Jim
Yardley
in the New York
Times
. An
`Oppressive' Regime Limits Free Speech in India, Civil Liberties
Expert Says
in the New York
Times
. How
two Mumbai girls changed the Thackeray conversation
by
G. Pramod Kumar on
Firstpost.

Why
are India's politicians scared of social media?
by Mahima
Kaul on
UnCut. Conceived
in haste, India's Internet law now targeted for change
by
Niharika Mandhana on the New York Times. It is not enough to
solve the IT Act, we need to fix the IPC also.

















Ila Patnaik on what ails the Indian economy
today: Growing
pains
and Policy easing won't lift investment.



In the aftermath of the Emkay crash
[link, link], Mobis
Philipose
in Mint worries about where SEBI is going.



A great piece
by Devesh
Kapur
on how wrong Indian official thinking in higher education is.



Morten
Jerven
on economic measurement in Africa. Seems like a fair
description of Indian official statistics to me.



Shareholder
lessons: Stay away from Ponty Chadha-like businesses
by
Arjun Parthasarathy, is linked to a theme
from Indian
capitalism is not doomed
.



One
head is better than many
: Ila Patnaik on the need for
modifying the present Indian financial regulatory architecture.










The misery
of a
sixteen year old
in 1984 in the USSR.



A
great debate
between Justice
Scalia

and Justice
Breyer
of the Supreme Court of the United States.










Marco
Arment
walks into a new Microsoft store. And,
see Charlie
Demerjian
on the difficulties that they
face. Jakob
Nielsen
, the expert on usability, analyses Windows 8 on the
tablet and the computer. So
far, the
market is giving Microsoft a thumbs-down
, with a -9% return
over the last six months, net of macroeconomic fluctuations..




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