It is the time of the year when HR and accounts people chase you for your ‘investing’ proof. So people ask me the following questions: – should I invest in equities? -should I invest in ELSS? or should I invest in bank deposits, nsc or ppf? And worse, some people think they are doing ME […]
This is such a catchy headline and completely contradictory to my saying ‘if you do not know what you are going to do with your leisure, do not retire’! Frankly the word ‘Retirement’ means ‘doing what you enjoy rather than doing what you must’. So a retired doctor could still be in practice – […]
We just saw…part 1 of ‘should I retire at all’…now here are the hassles – or why I have been having these doubts! Here are the reasons: Of course the most important question is “Will my corpus last 4 decades….for me and my wife to survive on”… 1. In India we have NO social security […]
Is this a question that has bothered you? or like everybody who follows the media think that you should have retirement plans well funded so that you can ‘retire’ at………….what ever age? Let us look at the Indian situation. Most Indian men will not know what to do once they retire (women readers please comment!!). […]
When a rich person (when I say rich I mean a person with a level of net worth – not a level of spending) spends frugally – is he being miserly or being sensible? Frankly I do not know and do not really worry about what other people think – but to me many of […]
The Facebook IPO is obviously too hot and something that everybody will watch. It is like a MJ release – you cannot ignore it. However the question is: Will it be the next Microsoft? Well not really sure – but MS grew AFTER it went public. In case of FB the client acquisition is already […]
Hrishikesh Mukherjee made about 50 films, including Satyakam, Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Namak Haraam – films that I can see again and again and again…and I still cannot call him the best. Dev Anand and Nav Ketan films made Taxi Driver, Guide, Jewel Thief,….et al. Raj Kapoor’s Shree 420, Aan, Jis […]