Whole foods for the mind? - Article of the day 18 Sept

So I came across this article on Whole Foods today. I loved the authors take on things including the headline

Whole Foods is like Vegas. You go there to feel good but you leave broke, disoriented, and with the newfound knowledge that you have a vaginal disease.



For those of you who have been lucky enough to not visit a Whole Foods outlet, it is Upscale Grocery store that sells organic and whole foods (Minimal processing and refining). Thus they charge more for their products. You can enjoy the article over at

www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

P.S. Well in Freakonomics or Super Freakonomics the cost of a average basket of goods from Whole Foods is more likely to be similar to any other grocery store. However, given the amount of Organic varieties and their target clientele there is an aura of it being a more expensive 

Narendra Modi is communal - Article for the day 26th August

I came across this today and was laughing real hard.It really shows how our media amplifies things out of context. Can we have a real discussion please? External policy, Economic decisions, Safety and security. All these need to be answered rather than these straw men

http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2013/07/17/in-pictures-the-fallout-of-narendra-modis-hindu-nationalist-remark/

P.S. The logic behind these posts can be found in this post

Rupee falling ? Let's get a new rupee - Article for the day 23 August

This tongue-in-cheek article makes some really interesting points. I especially liked the


A side-benefit: those Pakis sending us fake currency notes will be left with a lot of unbankable notes. And so will our black money holders.

The article is at www.moneycontrol.com/news/rupee/forget-36-re-1-=-15-cents-we-neednew-rupee-for-india_939423.html

Also, this won't be the first time that a new currency is used to stabilize a financial system.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

 Ghana has also done this in the past
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_cedi#Second_cedi_.28GHC.29.2C_1967.E2.80.932007

P.S. The logic behind these posts can be found in this post

 

The Hindu Vs TOI Ad Wars - Article for the day 19 July

Getting into the weekend and a little more humorous article given all the heavy reading in the past week.

The Hindu Vs TOI ad war was pretty interesting about two years ago. A quick YouTube search will show you all of them. Linking a few at the end of the article.

Whoever came up with this idea of a Hot Model on the front page of the Times of India being planted by the Hindu is a genius. Read the Unreal Times article for more.

Warning - NSFW

http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2012/01/28/times1-of-india-publishes-front-page-ad-of-the-hindu-mocking-times-of-india/

Hindu takes on the TOI as people knowing useless info
TOI takes on Hindu as news that wakes people up rather than putting them to sleep

P.S. The logic behind these posts can be found in this post

 

Visiting the queen is about to get costlier - Article for the day 29 June

Well, after the serious post yesterday I thought I'd switch gears a bit and move into a more humorous post.

For all the ruckus that Britain's proposed 3000 pound security deposit for visas has caused, this was a nice take.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/uks-visa-bond-yet-another-reason-to-skip-london-904405.html


P.S. The logic behind these posts can be found in this post