I have been wondering why some big company keen on E governance not coming up with the following services: 1. a centralized qualification database: a person should be able to convert all his qualifications, marksheets, etc into E form. 2. a centralized MEDICAL database: wherein all the medical records of a person should be nicely […]
Who should pay for the higher education of our children? Ideally somebody else. Like a scholarship. My niece is on her way to Harvard – and is being partly funded by a scholarship which is meeting about 50% of her TOTAL COSTS – and completely covers her tution fee. However not everybody gets admission and […]
How many of you sales guys out there will be able to sell a useless product to a BUSINESSMAN just because it is tax deductible? Not too many I guess…. Now let me give you 3 options. 1. Register your business as a ‘business of buying and selling shares’ and start filing IT returns. This […]
There is Gen X which believes that the next generation – Gen Y – is the ‘entitlement generation’ . I have a slightly different view. The Gen X has in many cases exploited their parents – right from looking after their children, using their services like a servant, occupying their houses – there has been […]
When it comes to buying any asset – I am using the word loosely there is a tendency to borrow. Borrowing actually helps you immediately by allowing you to buy beyond your means. The problem with most things we buy is that once we buy it, it ceases to hold any attraction for us. […]
Most people invest in equities, debt, real estate, …..and I guess they invest so that they are able to sell it at a premium later on, right? Well, when people speak to me they say “I bought a house for Rs. 80 Lakhs in just 10 years it is worth Rs. 1.9 crores”. Nothing wrong […]
I know I have touched a raw topic…so here are 2 versions. Rather I will give you 2 views, you can take whatever you want! Parents argument about this topic: 1. We looked after you, so you should look after us. 2. It is your duty. We looked after our parents, so you should look […]