Once upon a time we had sports. Then the sports became a business. Once it becomes a business, money maximisation becomes a must. So all games have to look ‘great’. So billiards has a lot of coloured balls (what the media did to make you shift from b/w to color is a different story altogether!). […]
Will you inherit anything at all……..and how much you inherit is a question that you need to answer for yourself! The longer a parent lives, will the corpus be higher or lower? Well this is a trick question actually. If you are living in your father’s house which is appreciating (like people say real […]
This is not restricted to US or India, it is a world wide phenomenon, but let us take a hypothetical case of a nice honest, hardworking lower – middle class American. He started life long ago and lived in the usual American style. Let us say he took a huge mortgage and bought a big […]
‘Sir I took a ULIP because my classmates sister became an agent’ – but it is ONLY Rs. 12,000 a year, I CAN AFFORD IT. – earns about Rs. 800,000 a year, has close to zero savings, busy paying off 2 wheeler loans, marriage loan, and about to take a car loan. ‘Subra I realised […]
Remember for all my anti US stance, I still think it is a great country, and will be rich and successful because of a millions of reasons. Of course they have power, money, arrogance, and the ability to think they can control the world’s destiny. However the main reasons why it is likely to retain […]
If 20% of the people own 93% of all the wealth in the US, it cannot be called a democracy… Here is a brilliantly written article….no clue when I will find such a nice article about our own democracy…. read on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-lapham/money-in-politics_b_1900173.html
I get a little amused when 24 year old anchors analyze SRT’s shots and say ‘He should not have played this shot’…there is a Marathi saying…which is so un-parliamentary that I cannot use it on my site, but fits it well. SRT has played great cricket and led a great life – I am […]