The Dhando Investor

Finished reading the simple yet excellent book by Mohnish Pabrai. I believe its a good read even for those who are not a bit interested in stock picking. He talks about Patels, Mittal, Branson and himself highlighting the common gene of value picking in businesses they have done.
Not too thick also, a one day read.

facebook status updates

A compilation of some weird such updates from my friends. Names omitted for privacy purposes.
XXX is hoping there wouldnt be a particular short term memory loss.
YYY is confounded by subgradients.
ZZZ Jaipur, Bangalore and now Ahmedabad.. all in states ruled by BJP. Conspiracy theories? But then terrorism is a conspiracy!
AAA is excited and also a little [...]

Real estate in bad state

When your job has nothing to do with buying, selling, renting, leasing property and someone comes to you with an opportunity to invest in a lucrative (obviously on papers and spreadsheets) real estate deal, definitely all is not right. And if the number of such deals offered to you rise on a weekly basis, you [...]