Most of the teaching that I try to do is by story telling….and that is a problem for a few people. Last week I was talking to a few people – and it is customary to say ‘MMS and Kalam are good people…’. I said, sorry, once a bureaucrat, always a bur….t. And b..t […]
Greece is in financial trouble – and by now all of us know it. The trouble is a result of years of mismanaging the economy. All you have to do is read Michael Lewis’s article about this in Vanity Fair – and it had appeared long back. How different are other countries? Well not very […]
An amazing land legislation which says land can be procured only by paying 4 times the market value has been passed. This will mean the land owners will benefit, correct? No. Only Economics will work. Let us take a different example – if suppose a legislation was passed that women should be paid 1.25 times […]
As a person gets more and more powerful he thinks he can get away with whatever he is doing. Not that he will do only correct things, but that nobody will be able to touch him or her. In the olden days editors had a relationship with famous people and thus news items against them […]
1. the 3G scam 2. many fertilizer scams 3. food grains – procured poor quality grains at very high prices. Now rotting 4. DGCA scam 5. Can get any loan for any amount from a PSU bank scam what is common to all these scams is simple. There is one babu who has a secured […]
A couple of days back (Monday 8th to be precise) I was at my parents house. Suddenly my dad switched on Jaya TV – and I watched the ‘Thuglaq’ annual show – which he does for the Pongal festival. Two great speakers – one was Gurumurthy and the other speaker was Cho Ramaswamy himself. Amazing […]
A bureaucrat or a minister is respected by the size of the fiefdom he runs. So obviously when the corpus in ULIPs has got far higher than the full mutual fund industry….SEBI saw some ground slipping. If SEBI was so clear, it should have woken up long ago. Why was it sleeping. Also ULIP is […]