Yesterday I got 2 mails / comments one said a. your blog is too simple and the second b. your blog is too complicated. I could not agree more. This is like being asked to speak to school – and all the kids from class 1 to class X being the audience. It is really […]
Most people invest in equities, debt, real estate, …..and I guess they invest so that they are able to sell it at a premium later on, right? Well, when people speak to me they say “I bought a house for Rs. 80 Lakhs in just 10 years it is worth Rs. 1.9 crores”. Nothing wrong […]
Sometime in 1994 a friend wanted to keep some money in a fixed interest bearing instrument. The amount was about Rs. 15000. He kept it in one company – let us call it Company A. Sometime in 1999 I was surprised to see that he still had his money there. I told him and […]
Not that I know Mahesh Murthy personally – i guess he is just a click away, nor do I hate Arindam Ponytail Chaudhuri….but here is a nice interesting post… I had got an application of a kid who had studied in the great college – and he had spent Rs. 1 million. The best job […]
Are we not sick of hearing the following: The terrorists acts have been a dastardly one…. The culprits will not be allowed to get away with this… It is not an intelligence failure…we had warned the state governments about this….. The Home Minister visited the attack site and made a statement in both the Houses… […]
Will the market recover? When, not whether is the question. If my students do not ask “When will the market touch 21000 again?”, I ask them the same question. The most optimistic answer I have got is 6 months and the most pessimistic answer I have got is 2 years. Very clearly short term […]
When an athlete does ultra running – or takes part in the Tour De France, does he not know about the pain that event will cause? of course he does. Then why does he do it? Well it is like meditation. When you start doing meditation for the first time, it becomes very difficult to […]