If you are a Tata Motors watcher, the sales of Nano should worry you, right? Well, not so fast. The sales of Nano will not do any great magic to the sales of Tata Motors. Nor will it affect the margins. To make an impact on the books of Tata Motors, Nano has to sell […]

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No, this is not a post…just a FB type of a comment. When a public issue of L&T Finance was announced (about a year back?)…many of the employees of the L&T group called me. Many of them were thrilled that they would be getting some ‘fixed quota’. I am not sure if I could have […]

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  At the outset let me clarify – this post was not triggered by Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate. I was told that the participants were nicely picked up from their homes, put up in a nice hotel, treated very well, given gifts – and they were overall very happy! Be that as it may, this […]

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If statistics are to be believed about 70% of the Engineers and MBAs of the class of 2011 are still looking for a job. Now about a Million kids of 2012 will be added to this pile of ‘Qualified Job Seekers’. Well most of them will graduate and continue to depend on their parents for […]

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I have always felt that motorists asking for more roads is like a kid telling his dad: “you have bought me too many dresses, now buy me a cupboard”. Motorists are a big drain on the municipal authorities and the state governments too. They think that the roads are built for them (they pay NOTHING […]

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Sorry for the language but let us look at this family in the USA. It could well be India after a few years, not commenting on it though. Grandfather is aged about 95 had the following: 1. A great job (he was a supervisor in Gen Motors and retired in 1980), 2. Has an indexed […]

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The world has told Sachin Tendulkar when to retire, but nobody wants to tell Sunil Gavaskar when to retire. I am sure he will be in the commentary box when Arjun Tendulkar retires and continue to say ‘you should go …in glory and when the world asks ‘why’ and not ‘why not’?. LOL. I guess […]

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