I hear a lot of stories about senior citizens being defrauded. However, our press has no time for doing such stories. Sad state of affairs. Do you think we will ever see such articles in the Indian press? No way. We just don’t have enough data on how we behave. For example do we know […]

Funnily most of us (at least many of us) are very busy earning money, but don’t like to spend time in looking after it once we get it. Amazing – see how we act with things which we already have and how we deal with things that we wish to acquire. Making a will is […]

If you are intrigued to know what makes a person write, this may not be a great post to read. I can only tell you why I write – and would ask you to pick up something challenging for your Retirement – anything – to make your retirement more interesting. In my 11th year of […]

Passion has an enemy – Prestige. What you do in life is largely to earn money..however there are certain things that society wants you to do. These are pretty thankless and not very paying jobs, so the creators of these jobs have attached the word “prestige” attached to it. The word prestige is what attracts […]

It is amazing that a Chartered Accountancy firm can do consulting work too. Makes no sense. When I did my CA with Sharp and Tannan, it was clear that S&T Associates could not do any work with the clients of S&T. This was 1984 and the world was perhaps far slower and satisfied than it […]

One of the theories of a good life is that calm people are happier. I have no way to know because I have never measured happiness. I had a dad who could be absolutely calm and an uncle who could never sit calmly. I have no clue about who was happier. My dad was surely […]

It is easy to get carried away when you have a blog that attracts 8000 people a day. You have written a book that has sold upwards of 170,000 copies. You have 13000 Twitter connects and 5000 FB connects, and 4000 LInked In connects. No. I am not trying to boast – these are facts […]