Linkfest: May 14, 2018

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What I am reading today

EssilorLuxottica ….The 'FANG' Of Your Eyes (Trends... Find them, ride them and get off.)
Rajasthan Class 8 book calls Bal Gangadhar Tilak as 'father of terrorism' (Business Standard)


Pilot, Thinker, Soldier, Spy: The Epic "Timeless" Season Finale Twofer (Smithsonian History)
Public Sector Banks' Bad Loans More Than Doubled Over Two Years To 2017 (IndiaSpend)
Accenture Delivers Digital Asset Management Program to Help Shaanxi Electric Boost Performance and Reduce Operating Costs (Accenture Digital)
debt is slavery – a reader's story (Subramoney)
ZTE could resume operations 'within weeks' following Trump's pledge to help the company (SCMP: China Tech)
Just Half a Percent (A Wealth of Common Sense)
How many atheists are there? (Marginal REVOLUTION)
Japan's Indo-Pacific strategy: the importance of Sri Lanka (India at LSE)

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