A few links where I spend most of my time. Will update as I find more and more interesting links. If you find anything similar to the links I shared here, drop me a mail at vas1089@gmail.com
Travel
Amazing places Part-1, Part-2 & Part-3 Have plans to complete at least half of that list!
What's good about your country? - An awesome thread on Quora, discussing about unique aspects of many countries, mostly related to travel. My favorites other than India are Afghanistan, Jordan, Croatia and Iran.
Cricket
A Batsman of imagery and imagination Sharda Ugra's brilliant piece on VVS Laxman
The accidental opener- Harsha Bhogle's article celebrating the 100th test of India's greatest opener - Virender Sehwag
The many sides of Saurav: Peter Roebuck's impression about one of the best Indian captain Saurav Ganguly
Sixteen years and suddenly gone: Another brilliant article by Sharda Ugra on India's best Test players- Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman
Two southern gentleman: Wisden's tribute to Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman
Ridiculed Ishant Ridicules England: An outstanding piece of writing by Jarrod Kimber celebrating Ishant Sharma's match winning spell at Lord's.
A wild animal of batting: JK on Sehwag's retirement.
What just happened? JK's brilliant piece mocking India's loss to New Zealand.
Related to India:
Incredible India colors - Great campaign.
What genetics reveal about India? - A lot.
Indian Train Journey A perspective of the Indian train journey.
Missing India A blog post of a grad-school student on how she is missing India.
Three Continents- I simply like this post!
Highly Nostalgic! School Chale Hum
The Upper Middle Class: A sarcastic take on the upper middle class.
India Tries to Electrify: The conundrum of India's development.
India's exam scam: An example of journalism done correctly!
Cultural Ambassador: Fields medal winner talking on importance of attributing mathematical techniques to its original sources and being scientific about it.
Calvin and Hobbes: Nothing can beat the profound thoughts involved in these comics. Check them out here.
Interesting articles
A Mathematician's Lament - How should one approach teaching mathematics?
A Senseless Conversation: to better understand of Artificial Intelligence
America's aristocracy: The after effects of intellectual inequality (follow up), related: Spiritual crisis of Modern Economy, Private Schools
Myopic Silicon Valley: Why we can't solve big problems? Weapons of math destruction: Structural reforms to CS curriculum and Silicon Valley?
Road to immortality?: Article discussing the science of brain machine interface and it's implications which raises the question of what it is to be human? (Related read: Silicon Valley's quest to live forever)
Self Driving Cars: The next big thing I'm excited about.
Brain Games: Brilliant article on The Marco Polo of neuroscience.
Karl Popper on Democracy: Love Plato's comment on various forms of governance.
Fickle beauty and cruelty of sport: Why sports are followed passionately.
40 world's most powerful picutres
The tank man in proper perspective
Extreme sports - Think life is monotone? try this.
Books
The Gene: Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee - amazingly written book explaining the science of genetics and our misunderstanding which manifests in misunderstanding many cultural and social issues.
Undoing Project by Michael Lewis: Great Collaboration between two contrasting Israeli psychologists eventually leading to a new field in economics
Beirut to Jersualem by Thomas Friedman - Explain the chaos in middle east.
India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha - Modern History of the World's largest Democracy explaining what India went through after Independence.
Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb and Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow- All explaining importance of luck in our lives.
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: human emotions involving 3 generation Indians (NRI's)