I am not into celebrating any particular day as father’s day, but it does give a chance to sit and think about a particular person or event. What has been my Father’s contribution to my Financial awareness? Well nothing if you ask him. Truly, he has never sat down and said ‘this is money…this is […]

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  I have spent half a century on the planet so have a lot of friends, classmates, cousins, friends who have spent similar amounts of time on planet earth. I have a lot of friends who are runners, and cyclists too. A few days ago one young friend was cribbing about the price of petrol. […]

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I know of a friend who is about 45 years old and he has NOBODY in the world. A single child, his father was also a single child. His mother was a rebel who did not keep in touch with anybody at all. Now after his parents death he has nobody at all. It is […]

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Many doctors if not all may not be noticing the change in patient behaviour. Let us look at some of the comments that I have heard: 1. Yes I agree he is a good doctor, but there is no parking available, so I am looking for a change. If you think this is shocking, think […]

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You could take an optimistic scenario or a pessimistic scenario for 2012 and in the years to come… Let me see….here I think PESSIMISTICALLY what can happen: 1. Collapse of the European Banking system: just because it is unable to bear the load, the banks will just collapse. In fact on 24th of Dec the […]

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I have a few friends, cousins, etc. who ask me BEFORE THEY INVEST…here is an email that got forwarded to me saying…sounds too good to be true, want you to say my decision of saying NO is correct… I have reproduced the mail here..was sent by a National Level Distributor (not a bank) …clearly violating […]

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Just stepped down in our building to stand near a dead body being removed. Had no intention of going to the cemetary…suddenly there were not enough people willing to touch a dead body.  Whatever be the reason this was the first funeral of a person whose name I do not know. This was the mother […]

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