One girl hired a cab, and the cabbie (a habitual rapist with 7 women complaining against him in the past) rapes her. This is at worst a law and order problem or correctly a social problem. Yes, it should not have happened. Could an app sitting in your phone be blamed for it? My answer […]

I was sitting with one of the 16,000 Vee Pees of a big bank…when he got a call. One of the kids had gone to meet a very big client and had goofed up. The client called the Vee Pee and said something…obviously not very complimentary..so the Vee Pee asked for the boy and said […]

Is this a good time to enter the market? I do not know. Which asset class (do you think) will out perform all the others over the next 10 years? I do not know. Should I sell some of my Fmcg and buy infra NOW? I do not know. Sadly the truth is all these […]

One of the speakers at the recent Morningstar Conference said ‘people who have passed out in 2007 have only seen a volatile market’. To me this showed lack of understanding of the history of the markets. Sorry for being blunt, but markets have been volatile from the day they were created. More than 100 years […]

These are my MOST read posts – other than the page ‘Author’ (which was used as a landing page by Rediff.com and Reuters, so the numbers are huge), and a post about Sachin Tendulkar and Obama – they were thrown up by search engines. So I am ignoring these 2 pages… Here are the top […]

There are just too many reasons why people over spend..let me give you a list of what I have seen and what I think….   1. Going with the wrong crowd: Get your going out crowd right. If you are a vegetarian tea drinking person, chances are you will over spend going out with a […]

This is not a financial post, just a happiness post. If you assume happiness has a lot of financial implications, you are right. If you are happy, you will be rich. Read it again. If you are happy, YOU will be rich – the reverse is not true always!! So to be happy you need […]