June 8, 2016 - Leading India's future, Mahendra Singh Dhoni sidesteps his own

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Invite Friends Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk Now, this is definitely the coolest story of the day. John Oliver's brand of infotainment usually involves picking an important topic and educating us on something that's out of whack, with a bunch of funny analogies thrown in for entertainment. In this episode, he takes apart the shady debt buying industry in the US where unpaid debt gets packaged and keeps changing hands, usually on pennies on the dollar. These companies then use underhand techniques to try and recover some of the debt and make a profit. On the show he goes on to talk about how he registers a company himself and buys $15 million worth of debt for $60,000 and does something wonderful with that. Watch the episode here. Wonder what would happen if some of our Indian bank NPAs went down this path. 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