Interesting readings

A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe by Richard Stallman, in The Guardian, 3 April, 2018.

Dangers of the `lynch mob’ mentality by Sarim Naved, in the Hindu Business Line, April 3, 2018.

ICICI Bank-Videocon ‘sweet deal’: RBI must tell us what’s going on by Suyash Rai in The Indian Express, April 2, 2018.

RBI’s powers over PSBs: What’s the truth? – I by Debashis Basu in Business Standard, April 2, 2018.

Public sector style anti-corruption is not appropriate for private firms by Ajay Shah in Business Standard, April 2, 2018.

Too Many Unnatural Deaths: The Gir’s Asiatic Lion Needs a 2nd Home by Rahul Nair and Aishwarya S. Iyer, TheQuint, 31 March 2018.

How Iran Used the Hezbollah Model to Dominate Iraq and Syria by Ranj Alaaldin in The New York Times, March 30, 2018.

It’s Time for an RSS Revival by Brian Barrett in Wired, March 30, 2018. Also see: Some suggestions for the guys building RSS feeds and feedreaders in Ajay Shah’s Blog, October 1, 2006.

IBBI’s draft framework sets new standards of regulatory governance in India by Bhargavi Zaveri in Business Standard, March 29, 2018.vAlso see: Regulatory responsiveness in India: A normative and empirical framework for assessment by Anirudh Burman, Bhargavi Zaveri in IGIDR Working Paper, July 2016.

How Chromebooks became the go-to laptops for security experts by Alfred Ng in Cnet, March 28, 2018.

A Math Whiz Has Become a Crucial Political Figure in France by Helene Fouquet and Marie Mawad in Bloomberg, March 28, 2018.

Why everyone loves Israel now by Shai Feldman and Tamara Cofman Wittes in Brookings, March 26, 2018.

How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google by By David Streitfeld, Natasha Singer and Steven Erlanger in The New York Times, March 24, 2018.

Shining a Cleansing Light on China’s Dark Secrets by Jane Perlez in The New York Times, March 23, 2018.

PSU bank privatization is not a panacea for the ills of the banking sector by Rajeswari Sengupta and Shubho Roy in Mint, March 22, 2018.

Liberal World Order, R.I.P. by Richard N. Haass in Project Syndicate, March 21, 2018.

Urjit Patel Is Half Right: Accountability Is The Real Fugitive by Shankkar Aiyar in Bloomberg, March 17, 2018.

The Double Helix of Chinese History by Denise Y. Ho in Project Syndicate, March 15, 2018.

When ideology overcame sense: RTE imposes a bureaucratic, grotesquely inefficient regime starving our children of good education by Geeta Kingdon in The Times of India, March 13, 2018.