PwC Consultant Shreyas Panse is back with the 19th edition of our weekly series on InsideIIM, where he curates a list that is the best from across the web that industry professionals and current students must read.
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"In 1750, India accounted for one-quarter of the world’s manufacturing output, but by 1900 that was down to 2 percent"
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Irom Sharmila and fight for democracy in Manipur
- The unwieldy, gargantuan government entity that is
Food Corporation of India
- Removal of Planning Commission could
help empower state governments
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Stop “believing” in evolution. It is a fact.
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Tipsiest states of India
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Asset class returns behaviour over a decade or so: volatile and hard to pin down
- I yawned thrice while reading this article:
Why do we yawn?
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ISIS is just too big and complex to be beaten in a war
- Google celebrated 10-year anniversary of public listing this week. It’s
growth in this period has been phenomenal, just as
it changed organisation management principles
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Tourism as an antidote to Naxalism
- This is
the third hottest year on record for the world
Off topic
- A robot
hitchhiked its way across Canada
- Never expected this:
Chess players dying in the middle of competitive matches
Longer reads
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Roman empire: explained with 40 maps
- Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva:
"Rock star in the worldwide battle against genetically modified seeds"
Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at
shreyasp.wordpress.com. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore. Follow him on InsideIIM at
shreyasp.insideiim.com
