the people I know or knew

Once in a while you think back in life and like the Englishman says “One day if you can look back and laugh…it could not have been that bad after all” These are not about the troubles I have gone through. God knew (knows) I am perfectly not capable of handling problems, so does not [...]

Media language can be learnt

Was wondering what are the few sentences that a person should be taught to be in the financial media business. Here are a few: As we had said earlier, the market is now decoupled. Even though the markets went down yesterday in US Indian markets have gone up. Indian markets have gone down, in keeping [...]

Parents duty?

Not sure how many of you are on facebook. One Ibnlive.com clip doing the rounds is an IAS topper saying how much his father sacrificed to make him an IAS. He talks of his father selling his land. He talks of not having a house to live, but still studying for his IAS. His father [...]

Studying abroad? think twice!

So many parents can afford to send their kids abroad today, it is not funny! And most people would have had aspirations to study in Harvard, Wharton,….the Ivy League. Today they can sign cheques of US $ 150,000 without batting an eyelid when their kid says ‘dad I want to study abroad’… In the 1960s, [...]

Personal Loans: To take or not to take?

It is easy for me to say ‘you should not take personal loans, because I have not taken’. It is so foolish too say do not borrow. Most people are borrowing out of compulsion, not love for the bank!! Nobody borrows if they can live without that expense. However people do borrow, and when I [...]

Measure your success!

Though all of us love money, we are equal in our hatred for accounts! So we want the money, but not the headache of maintaining accounts, correct? Well if you wish to measure your success and are still using money as the medium to measure it, think again. What your kids think of you, what [...]