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 […]

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I do not always respond to emails and comments on my blog. Some are too obvious and some queries are portfolio management queries. Typically like ‘I have invested in……..’ is it a good investment? Is it a good time to average? is it a good time to sell?…. frankly the answer to all this is […]

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J Dey was a journalist – and I believe he studied in Fatima High School, Vidyavihar, my alma mater too! While switching channels between Discovery and Music India..i happened to hit a news channel. They announced that the Mumbai Police has cracked the case, Chotta Rajan’s henchmen killed J Dey and the sharp shooters have […]

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As a person gets more and more powerful he thinks he can get away with whatever he is doing. Not that he will do only correct things, but that nobody will be able to touch him or her. In the olden days editors had a relationship with famous people and thus news items against them […]

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Manish of Jagoinvestor.com sent me a mail of an article in Maharashtra Times (here is the link)…talking about how people should try to learn from websites… here is the link http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/8232806.cms

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When we we were in school, we were told we should read the newspaper. So we did read the news paper. Then came 1977 – so Indian Express, Ramnath Goenka and Arun Shourie became a habit. OMG we would even discuss the newspaper. When a letter got published in the ‘letters to the editor’ column, […]

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for those who missed the cnbc-nse wealth train program (Allahabad leg), here is the link http://www.moneycontrol.com/video/special-videos/nifty-trade-camp-start-small-investsip_535515.html

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