What is such a note doing in a financial blog? Well a good question to ask! The truth is the answer is available in Ramayan… When Ravana calls for a meeting …let us call it a war meeting he starts by saying..”I will not give back Sita’ – now tell me what next to do! […]
I have been accused of being cynical, skeptical, ….and a lot of negative things. However in 2011 I will feel safe. After all people like Dr. Binayak Sen (terrorist, accused of sedition) are in jail and sentenced for a long term. Will he get life or a death penalty? Well not sure. After all in […]
We really love our children. What do you do when you love something or somebody? Well some people have weird tastes….and of course we are educated, we love our country,…but we are busy, what to do? Well some people take time off from their busy schedule to work on some unimportant things like RTI and […]
I had this on my facebook page and many people liked it…as always it is not original… “In life God does not give you the people you WANT, instead He gives you the people you NEED. To teach you, hurt you, love you, guide you, desert you – and make you exactly the way you […]
Nothing original in this post! Just doing a cut n paste of an email that I just received…. “As you are aware that w.e.f 1st January 2011, KYC is mandatory for all investors, irrespective of amount of investment. Please find the operational guidelines as well as revised guidelines for Micro SIP. I) KYC will be […]
I have no interest in the Radia tapes. I have no view on Barkha or for that matter on N Ram or Shekhar Gupta. Once upon a time (1977) I had a lot of respect for Indian Express, never trusted the other newspaper in Mumbai, read Illustrated Weekly for Kushwant Singh’s column, read Evening news […]
Normally this blog does not do ‘date stamped’ stories…but this is exceptional. Nilesh Shah’s moving to Icici Prudential from Templeton (circa 2004) meant some conservative guys could look at Prudential Icici Amc (as it was called then, remember?) for investing. The earlier image (K-10 or Ketan?) were all the kind of a cowboy image – […]