What’s worth reading

• Never let a corporate (read: Google) do the job of a library. Especially when it’s a library of human knowledge

• Gender gap in the world

• If you didn’t know it already: Homeopathy is nonsense and homeopathic doctors are essentially quacks

• Are Indian software companies too bloated with middle managers?

• And if you in an inefficient job as well, be very afraid of it being “Uberized”

• Young people don’t watch TV anymore

• Apple announced the greatest quarterly results in corporate history. How did it overtake Microsoft to get to that level. Also, if Apple were a country, it would be bigger than the likes of Oman and Belarus (reg. required)

• The world is a better place today than anytime in the past

• The state of business education in India: The China Europe International Business School, set up 20 years ago in China, beat the 53-year old Indian Institute of Ahmedabad (IIM-A) by a long margin in FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2015

• Should fighting corruption be a responsibility of corporations rather than government?

• Understanding the rights and wrongs of Charlie Hebdo

• Why public transport can never be free. In fact, the better it is, the more you should be charged for it

• Turns out Idli and falafel are old siblings; the south indian fermented snack has its origins in Arabia

• Why do most movies that come out these days look orange and blue

Primers worth reading (and watching)

• The new Greek government, SYRIZA and Alexis Tspiras. A bit more detail about their potential impact Eurozone

• Net neutrality debate

• Israel and Palestine

• From revolution to irrelevance: the history of ATM