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What’s Worth Reading | Shreyas Recommends – (Week 56: Oct 16th – Oct 23rd)

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Another week's gap. Another collection a little too large to digest.

India

How about we just cut up the big states? We’d get better governance at least

Farmer suicides: depression is bigger reason than debt

Profiling the thieves of India. Dacoities have come down significantly. Wonder what happened to the “Chaddi and Banyan Gang”

Around the world

Nobel Prize factoids

Watch: War in Syria - who is fighting whom

What does it take to eradicate a disease

The world will have to add 600 million jobs in the next decade

Business and Tech

Self-driving cars could avoid about 90% of the current road accident deaths. That’s about 300,000 lives saved per decade in the US alone

Domino’s with a bold move: launches its first outlet in Italy

Playboy will no longer have nudes in their magazines. The economics and business strategy behind the decision

Yet another milestone for solar and wind energy: they now have negligible lifetime cost difference with non-renewables

How do pharmaceutical drugs get their names

The origin of the 140 character limit on Twitter

How many hours will your phone charge last if it was powered by AA battery

Be careful when you use Google: it has removed “Don’t be evil” from its Code of Conduct

Psy's “Gangnam Style” was first video to hit billion views on Youtube in 2012. Since then nine more music videos have hit billion views

Raising VC money can be a very bad decision for a start-up

Forget the unicorns, hail the cockroaches

Nokia killed Nokia

Strange things

What does the barcode on flight boarding pass tells about you

Watch costing bloody $815,000. And they are justifying it!

The origins of "Nankhatai"

The “Bechdel Test” used for films originated from a comic strip

Biggest disruptive technology from the 20th century were refrigerators. Reminds me of this another article about how far behind India is the world average in terms of fridge ownership. White goods can be catalyst for social and economic revolution in India.

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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