35 weeks of Content, 35 weeks of Reading Shreyas Recommends. In this edition we see India's B-Schools in FT Rankings, the history of ATMs, Gender gap on the Earth, Apple's Financial Results and much more.
Never let a corporate (read: Google) do the job of a library. Especially when it’s a library of human knowledge
Gender gap in the world
If you didn’t know it already:
Homeopathy is nonsense and homeopathic doctors are essentially quacks
Are Indian software companies too bloated with middle managers?
And if you in an inefficient job as well,
be very afraid of it being "Uberized"
Young people don’t watch TV anymore
Apple announced
the greatest quarterly results in corporate history. How did it
overtake Microsoft to get to that level. Also, if Apple were a country,
it would be bigger than the likes of Oman and Belarus (reg. required)
The world is a better place today than anytime in the past
The state of business education in India: The China Europe International Business School, set up 20 years ago in China,
beat the 53-year old Indian Institute of Ahmedabad (IIM-A) by a long margin in FT's Global MBA Ranking 2015
Should fighting corruption
be a responsibility of corporations rather than government?
Understanding
the rights and wrongs of Charlie Hebdo
Why public transport can never be free. In fact, the better it is, the more you should be charged for it
Turns out Idli and falafel are old siblings;
the south indian fermented snack has its origins in Arabia
Why do most movies that come out these days
look orange and blue
Primers worth reading (and watching)
The new
Greek government, SYRIZA and Alexis Tspiras. A bit more detail about
their potential impact Eurozone
Net neutrality debate
Israel and Palestine
From revolution to irrelevance:
the history of ATM
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Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at
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