I have said a lot about Ayn Rand…and here is more. The publishing industry publishes what sells. It need not be good, moral, correct, intelligent,….but people should buy. If they read and buy more, even better. If they can get one company to buy 100,000 copies to be given away free, they actually do not […]
Here is a query that I got from a person whom I know from my blog….(I do not know her except through emails, but she is a very smart professional). Here is the query “Had a visitor from xyz securities yesterday. He wanted me to open a trading account offline.I have a broking account which […]
Somebody asked me…’Why cannot you be more sympathetic towards the media?’ Why indeed? When I heard about the Norway bombing I also ASSUMED it was ‘islamic terrorism’ well it was not. When I interacted with the police, I realised that not all terror attacks are by islamic terrorists. I realised that there are people who […]
I get kinda irritated when the kids I teach ask me questions for which they can find answers on the web. What is a hedge fund and what is a mutual fund is a question that I have been asked a zillion times..so here is an attempt..I hope you like it..expect it in the next […]
We have a general police force which is expected to tackle terrorism. To me this is a joke. A cruel joke at that. First of all the police is expected to tackle traffic, general law and order, VIP bandobast, runaway marriages….well it is like a joke. Then there is political interference to deal with. Let […]
I am no fan of BJP. I was and am anti Indira Gandhi’s Congress (original spelling of Feroze was Gandhy) – and in 1977 as a school kid rooted for Janata Party. I hate the way they do not want the Lok Ayukta in Karnataka, but claim that they want the Lokpal at the Centre. […]
Ever wondered what is Market Stabilisation Scheme? In 2002-4 the Rupee started strengthening. This was because of the amount of foreign currency that came into India for being invested. This put a lot of pressure on the Rupee – and the strengthening hurt the exporters (remember the great software industry which did not tell you […]