If you hear I have been killed in a road accident, please ask for a CBI probe. The amount of immoral things that corporate India is doing (I am convinced it was not so bad earlier) is unbelievable. The sheer enormity hits you. I have been inundated with mind boggling stories. Many of them involve […]

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Some people call it sensible spending or Conscious spending…well this is not a new concept, but a new way of looking at things. See how we spend money – normally it is on a reflex. Like ordering tea in a hotel – it is assumed all the people will have it. Tea may be a […]

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Doing a series on how clients get ripped off! Each part is independent of the previous one. The first one was about Education. So continuing the education rip off. First we spoke of the ‘urban’ boy / girl who is on a self rip off mode. Take the case of a carpenter whose daughter is […]

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So SEBI has one more work for mutual funds. They are supposed to be the conscience keepers for corporate India. Good news. Next they may be asked to get a ‘good behavior’ certificate from unit holders – saying I will redeem them only for legitimate purposes. I will not use the proceeds for buying a […]

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When you meet corporate India’s executives, their suppliers, their customers, the vendors who sell their products, you can see a lot of disconnect. Here is my (completely unsolicited) advice to the people who meet Corporate India: a. It may sound difficult, but do not laugh at their ‘Corporate Vision’, ‘Corporate Mission’ and words like ‘monetize […]

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This is actually very personal! First of all the Satyam episode is shocking. NO doubt about it. However, if you have dealt with corporate India, when I say shocking, I only mean the size. NOt the modus operandi. Many, many corporates have done it in the past. Lets go back to the start of Satyam. […]

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