Having interacted with a few old people’s homes and many elderly people and youngsters looking for such facilities, let me tell you the gaps. Two ways of looking at the gaps are 1) use this as a checklist when you are looking for an old age home and 2) see the gaps and try to […]

Sorry but for somebody who has been in the markets since 1979, I have NOT said anything new about investing which has not been said before. If you find anything original in my blog, I can assure you it just means you have read less than me. Everything that I have written has been or […]

If you have ever complained to God about him not giving you some things (and who has not?) stop the thoughts. Immediately start writing a notebook of why you have Gratitude and towards whom and for what. It is a very powerful exercise of Thanking God for what he has given us. I do not […]

I have a friend who is part of a religious group which runs a school in tribal Maharashtra. What started off as a small school with 40 students is now a big school with 800 students. This obviously speaks about the popularity of the school. Why is the school popular? they provide good lunch, uniform, […]

So it was the 14th ping that set me thinking that I should do a note on the D’mart IPO aka Avenue Supermarts. This is going to be a longish note, so keep about 20 minutes to read and digest the whole thing. While all other Retailers are struggling, D’mart has hit all the right […]

Last two days we have been seeing why I am a bad runner and you do not have enough money. We both need a solution to our problems. Sadly, it is not about knowing, but about doing. Here is what we can do…Lets see… Each year we make a New Year’s Resolution, and promptly by […]

Facebook is a one to one and a one to many communication…. Twitter too is one to one and one to many communication. In case of Twitter the response maybe unsolicited too…you have no control on who retweets of who replies to your tweet. However a blog is a one to many communication, so life […]