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Week 45 is here. Shreyas takes us on a journey from Berlin to Bollywood to Mother's Day to GST to Indian Stock Markets. Also, should facebook buy Twitter?

GST reform has turned into a fraction of what it was supposed to be. And its deterioration is continued indication of policy paralysis in India

Indian stock markets are on the slide. Some say that this is because of the foreign institutional investors. On bright side, because Indian market are below the long term average, they might be attractive again

The woman who came up with Mother's Day in 1908, was protesting against its commercialisation by 1920 and worked towards getting the day cancelled

Speaking of Mother's Day, the best and the worst countries to be a mother in

What went behind the scenes of Bharti Retail and Future Group merger

Why Sunny Leone is representative of changes in Bollywood's and Indian society's perspective towards sex

Fast and Furious movies are the modern version "Angry Young Man vs. Globalisation"

Your smartphone can help analyse your DNA

Disgusting things go viral for a reason

There are "janitors" sitting on the outskirts of Bangalore who are keeping the social media clean and acceptable to general audience

Do you know what business Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is in?

Facebook should buy Twitter. Wait, what?

Some management consultants are faking 80-hour work weeks. I'm not one of them!

Berlin in 1945 vs. Berlin in 2015

Not something I can relate with, but funny nonetheless: Things we need to come up with a better way to say to kids

NASA's microwave radar helped detect four alive people under 10 feet rubble, eleven days after the earthquake

Longer reads

The troubling story of nail salon workers in New York: Part 1, Part 2

Mumbai's oldest cricket clubs

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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