It is not easy, I can assure you. In about 1982-85 when I was doing my CA we used to stay in a very nice, clean and wholesome hotel ‘Shreyas’ in Pune. We used to be doing the audit of Crompton Greaves, Ruston & Hornsby,….etc.. and therefore would live there for a long time. Shreyas […]

  You learn more in a down turn than in a rising market. 1999-2001 was a far better learning and stock picking period (for which the rewards came from 2003-7). Similarly now when the market was not doing too well you got a chance to sell lots of GOOD shares and the same were available […]

You are 28 and if you have still NOT bought a house, I am sure you are in trouble! Most parents / uncles / elders….would have told you how you must buy a flat in Ulwe, Uran, Panvel, – assuming of course that you cannot afford in Marine Drive or even in Mira Road! So […]

If you want the world to take you seriously, you must first take yourself seriously! This is a chance meeting with a few women who have made these following statements — 1. A young 21 year old kid : ‘Subra Sir I am a girl so it makes sense to do an MBA at a […]

Happiness happens when the results you get is far better than the results you expected. Therefore when a person invests Rs. 1000 in the equity market and in one month it goes to say Rs. 1100 he is very happy. However if he does a SIP of Rs. 1000 in a mutual fund and it […]

Well all over the press you are hearing about the rising dollar being the problem, right? Well, there are some people who are rejoicing…who do you ask? Well for starters hoteliers in Kerala, Goa, etc. – the foreigners are finding India an inexpensive destination, so they are coming in bigger numbers… For the Indians who […]

Yesterday 4 people were sentenced to death for a rape that was committed in a bus in Delhi. Like a typical Agatha Christie novel people outside could never have known what happened. The chances are in a crowd people behave with far greater bravery (?) than they ever would. Looking at the profile of the […]