CAT Prep

RTI Response

Rankings

Placements

Score Vs. %ile

Salaries

Campus Tour

Upskill

Career Show

What’s Worth Reading | Shreyas Recommends – (Week 55: Oct 2nd – Oct 9th)

Oct 9, 2015 | 2 minutes |

Join InsideIIM GOLD

Webinars & Workshops

Compare B-Schools

Free CAT Course

Take Free Mock Tests

Upskill With AltUni

CAT Study Planner

CUET-PG Mini Mock 2 (By TISS Mumbai HRM&LR)

Participants: 415

CUET-PG Mini Mock 3 (By TISS Mumbai HRM&LR)

Participants: 176

CUET-PG Mini Mock 1 (By TISS Mumbai HRM&LR)

Participants: 770

MBA Admissions 2024 - WAT 1

Participants: 234

SNAP Quantitative Skills

Participants: 514

SNAP Quant - 1

Participants: 952

SNAP VARC Mini Mock - 1

Participants: 945

SNAP Quant Mini Mock - 2

Participants: 360

SNAP DILR Mini Mock - 4

Participants: 245

SNAP VARC Mini Mock - 2

Participants: 440

SNAP Quant Mini Mock - 4

Participants: 187

SNAP LR Mini Mock - 3

Participants: 250

SNAP Quant Mini Mock - 3

Participants: 207

SNAP VARC Mini Mock - 3

Participants: 298

SNAP - Quant Mini Mock 5

Participants: 52

XAT Decision Making 2020

Participants: 448

XAT Decision Making 2019

Participants: 349

XAT Decision Making 2018

Participants: 448

XAT Decision Making -10

Participants: 586

XAT Decision Making -11

Participants: 457

XAT Decision Making - 12

Participants: 417

XAT Decision Making - 13

Participants: 352

XAT Decision Making - 14

Participants: 354

XAT Decision Making - 15

Participants: 395

XAT Decision Making - 16

Participants: 468

XAT Decision Making - 17

Participants: 511

XAT Decision Making 2021

Participants: 518

LR Topic Test

Participants: 2737

DI Topic Test

Participants: 1239

ParaSummary Topic Test

Participants: 2096

Here's me overcompensating for 3-week absence, and making yet another, not-at-all convincing promise that I'd more regular with these posts in the future:  

India

 
Tamil Nadu has been successfully running a Make in India model for about twenty years

Money into the sea: Mumbai’s coastal road is expensive and bad urban planning Watch: Nandan Nilekani talks about financial disruption in India The sorry state of the private healthcare in India India is no longer as dependent on the monsoon as it used to be At current pace, district courts in India will take at least 10 years to clear out pending cases The most exciting e-commerce company in India?

 

Around the world

 
China’s status in the world, explained in charts

What are the Sustainable Development Goals? Are we a little too addicted to bottled water? There was a lot of heated debate when two weeks ago when a US pharma company raised prices of a cancer drug by 50 times to about $750. That same drug is available in India for about 3 cents. The US drug has returned to its original price now A stampede at Mina near Hajj killed nearly 700 people. The crowd problem is a combination of sociology and fluid dynamics

 

Business and Tech

 
WhatsApp has only 50 engineers to serve its 900 million users

People are going “retro” by preferring paper books over ebooks Comparing all iPhone cameras Scariest moments of the 2009 financial crisis Millennials will buy any shit you sell them Apple wants to kill Google at its monotonous advertising game Reason we haven’t any alien communication so far? They might be using advanced encryption technology

Strange things

How many years before you die? Are you an engineer? 13% chance that you'd marry another engineer Do you highlight when you study? Sorry, but that is not necessarily a helpful activity What does probability mean in your profession? Sad? Call a service which sends hot men to wipe out your tears   All 54 previous Shreyas Recommends Editions are available here

————–
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