What's Worth Reading - Shreyas Recommends - Diwali Edition - Week 57

India

 
• Retirement in India: not a great idea

• An Indian startup which wants to be Uber for private jets

• If you are a commodities trader, one of best bets is to buy gold in August and sell it in March the next year. Reason? Diwali and Indian weddings

• Indian Railways' slow march away from the bureaucracy

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Around the world

• El Nino is causing mayhem

• Your favourite Thai dish was an invention meant to calm cultural tensions

• Why the Myanmar elections are such a big deal

• Greenland is melting

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Business and Tech

• Just 10 years ago, many were dismissive of the Wikipedia “experiment”

• The freakiness of Facebook’s new AI engine: M

• Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular social networks among teens

• What is the difference between a multi-millionaire and a centi-millionaire

• Maggi vs. Volkswagen

• Regression analysis: a refresher on the bedrock of statistics

• Processed meat are cancerous? History shows consumers don’t care much about such studies

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Strange things

• India finally has a butterfly catalogue

• Product-by-product valuation of the new James Bond movie. Also, How do you make the best James Bond movie?

• Watch: Why Michael Jackson’s Thriller is one of the greatest album

• Stupidity has variety