Month: April 2014
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Wonderla Holidays IPO Review
in IPO/NFO
This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at skukreja@investitude.co.in Stock markets are going up and as always people are getting excited, disappointed, confused or hyper. Excited, as they are seeing this kind of jump after
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3D Printed House Drinks Water After a Workout
in Links
Regular readers know my fascination with 3D printing, so you can guess how amazed and fascinated I was when I read that a Chinese company has actually 3D printed a house! It is quite incredible, and my first reaction was skepticism, however they really have printed a house, well, almost. The house needed assembly, but
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Unpredictable beard interviews an earthquake
in Links
Arun Shourie’s interviews are always a pleasure to read, I have very high regard for him, and quite enjoyed reading this interview he gave to Shekhar Gupta. Arvind Kejriwal also gave an interview this week, and if you haven’t read it already, you can find it here. New York Times has a nice article on
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Systems versus Goals: There’s an app for that
in Personal Technology
I had reviewed “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams a few months ago, and one of the key ideas in that book was working towards a system and not a goal. Here’s a small snippet from my review to
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Worried zebra wonders why we are alive?
in Links
If I know my readers well, and I think I do, then I’m glad to report I have chanced upon the answer to the question you were wondering about all these years. Yes, you will now know why zebras have stripes (or learn a theory about it anyway). Obviously no discussion on zebras should go
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Thoughts on Economic Policies Present in the AAP Lok Sabha Manifesto
in Economy
I read the AAP Lok Sabha Manifesto today, and was rather disappointed with it. I think it is only fair that I mention my bias before I get to my opinion on the AAP Manifesto. I started out as a supporter of AAP, and considered them the best bad option we had, but I have
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