Hey kids…there is no Santa…Wikileaks. Actually the kids know it…it is the adults who need to be told about this! so even if you are going on a short ride on your slow cycle…wear a HELMET even if you are in the pink of health and feeling great….take MEDICAL INSURANCE one day if you are […]

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When times are tough, well times are tough. Surely you had not heard of this earlier!! Well from 1st of September the unit linked plan will undergo a major change in the charging structure. This is perhaps good for the customer, but the sales force is now willing to do anything to show some sales. […]

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Thanks to my training back ground and having written the book  ‘Retire Rich: Invest Rs. 40 a day’ I have done some workshops on ‘Retirement Planning’ at various locations. There is one question which I HAVE TO ANSWER: ‘How much money as a corpus do I need to retire?’ – and if I say Rs. […]

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About the Book : – To most people retirement is an age. It of course depends on your health, the company you work for etc. However in the first chapter I would like to introduce you to the concept that retirement is an amount of money! After all, if you have that magical amount why […]

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Why do people become proud? Or what are the sources of pride? Let us enumerate the sources from where man / woman get their pride: Youth pride: ‘I am young’ is what Shankaracharya called ‘yovana garvam’. It is there is man right through childhood to old age! Money: “I am rich’ is also a very […]

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Sounds very funny does it not? Why would anybody choose to be poor? Or unhappy? Or fail? Well if you read Hindu philosophy in detail you realise the following lessons are taught to you through stories: You are a function of what you chose to be. If you are happy you make the choices to […]

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Ayn Rand says “money is the root cause of all good”. Indian philosophy says ‘money increases desire – and like ghee and wood to a fire – increases desire and misery’. Immaterial of whether you take the western view or the eastern view, all of us have at some point chased money, have we not? […]

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