Linkfest: May 24, 2018

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What I am reading today

Surgical strike at a chronic ailment (Somasekhar Sundaresan)
Create, don't just disrupt (Forbes India Magazine)


Lights, Camera, Action: China Embraces Hollywood (Knowledge@Wharton)
Why Mark Carney's successor is likely to be woman (Martin vander Weyer)
The legacy of colonialism in Bangladesh's police (India at LSE)
Meet Drishti, the AI startup that wants to be the 'Google for actions' (FactorDaily)
Managing the Risks of Corporate Fraud: The Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)
Creative Destruction: An Alternate View (Daily Reckoning)
How Facebook Wants to Improve the Quality of Your News Feed (Wired)
From market place to multi-brand, why India's retail policies must evolve (Mint)

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