Shailesh’s Newsletter

What I read in 2024: Part 8 of 9

A Hero Extremely Constrained; The Last Act of World War II

Aug 16 • 

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July 2025

What I read in 2024: Part 7 of 9

"Why Nations Fail" - Emerging Markets edition and Tolstoy on Burnout

Jul 23 • 

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2024 Airport Reads: Part 6 of 9

Confessions of a Radical Liberal and The Tulsidas of Finance

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

2024 Summer Reads: Part 5 of 9

Reading Tolstoy and Renu in the United Kingdom

Jun 29 • 

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March 2025

What I read in 2024 - Part 4 of 9

Eyeless Statues and Self Assured Men

Mar 31 • 

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February 2025

What I read in 2024 - Part 3 of 9

Genghis Khan and George Costanza

Feb 16 • 

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What I read in 2024 - Part 2 of 9

Of Stunted Men and Self Obsessed Polyglots

Feb 9 • 

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January 2025

What I read in 2024 - Part 1 of 9

Belated reflections on my last year's reading haul

Jan 25 • 

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November 2024

Payment Frauds and Wireless Access

Is rapid access to high quality internet leading to an uptick in payment system frauds?

Nov 3, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Little to Lose or Unprecedented Access?

What explains poorer Indian states’ extraordinary appetite for equity mutual fund investments?

Oct 27, 2024 • 

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How India Invests

Are investors in some states less risk averse than the others? Some original research into what makes investors in some states put more money in…

Oct 19, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The vulnerabilities of Small Countries

Is the model of an export-oriented/urban/entrepot Small State in trouble in a globalizing world?

Jun 15, 2024 • 

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