Transforming a nut into a leader

I like Ted talks...this is one was the shortest, yet one of the most powerful ones i've seen :)

Insight's Into Google's Search Dominance

Why does Google keep winning inspite of competitors like Bing ? What goes into the Search feature developments ? An Insightful article from Wired http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/

The Professional

I Like Subroto Bagchi's articles...And this one is another masterpiece..

http://www.livemint.com/2009/09/21213521/Excerpt-The-man-who-needs-no.html?h=A3

Historic Role Of Islam

An essay by M.N.Roy ( who , though later denounced communism , is perhaps the most successful communist from India in terms of position - he served in Comintern for 7 - 8 years ) ....

http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/study_res/islam/info/roy.html

An essay which dispels quite lot of wrong notions about Islam.. A must read in these troubled times.

Institution Building

The system should function whomever be the person in charge.. An article to which my philosophies relate a lot :) http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/MEDIA/2009/leadership_vs_institutions.html

Politics - The Opportunist Wins

I've rarely read such deft political articles ... Indian politics always throws up such interesting articles .

Quants, Stats & Financial Crisis

  One of the most insightful & mathematically meaningful articles that I've read about the mortgage meltdown.. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all

Quoting Paul Wilmot from the article, 

    "The relationship between two assets can never be captured by a single scalar quantity," Wilmott says. For instance, consider the share prices of two sneaker manufacturers: When the market for sneakers is growing, both companies do well and the correlation between them is high. But when one company gets a lot of celebrity endorsements and starts stealing market share from the other, the stock prices diverge and the correlation between them turns negative. And when the nation morphs into a land of flip-flop-wearing couch potatoes, both companies decline and the correlation becomes positive again. It's impossible to sum up such a history in one correlation number, but CDOs were invariably sold on the premise that correlation was more of a constant than a variable." 

 --  Anybody who has read Taleb ( Fooled by randomness / The black swan )  too would find this article very much insightful .