It took Shakespeare to say you can flatter a man by saying ‘You are so simple, you cannot be flattered’. I am not so humble…and hence this post. I know, I know, I should not be putting it here, but hey not even a learned man like Ravana could conquer his ego. I am a […]

I am not sure whether I should have said – do I really teach? or Can I really teach? If I stand in front of a class and expect to ‘teach’ something, am I cheating myself. Why are cheating and teaching anagrams? Seriously, I do not know whether I can teach anything to anybody. Or […]

D0 you know what is the Wimbledon effect? Well it is the location – the Wimbledon is in UK, but no Englishman ever wins it !! Similarly when the Indian stock markets go up, the participants are mostly White men in US or UK. Why are Indians shy of investing in Equities? Well Sucheta Dalal […]

This is a fantastic headline to catch people’s attention, that is all. I have no clue whether the market will go up, go down, remain sideways,….NO CLUE at all. I mean it, really. I was in a bank class when the index had reached 10,000 (year 2008 I think?). One of the kids asked me […]

  Till Taleb came along and said ‘Do not discount the role of luck in your life’ all of us considered ourselves smart. Very smart.  Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, etc. also have to consider themselves lucky with regard to their date (and place) of birth. If they were born as women in a backward district, […]

Not sure whether I will be lynched for this article, but as usual I am not giving an answer. Let me put both the sides of the argument, and you can pull your hair over what you should do. Let me start with a caveat, if you are not allocating about 80% of your overall […]

  Buy shares of a good profitable, successful business, hold on for inordinately long periods of time, and live off the dividends. You will surely get wealthy in the long run. If you want to get wealthier,  use the dividends to buy MORE shares in the same company. Let us say you have shares of […]