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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Subramoney was the only blog which did not have a view on the most important media event of the day at 11am. So I decided to write my views (at 8 pm Wednesday) on PC’s budget to be presented on Thursday…here it is. It is the only post (I challenge you) to have such a […]

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A friend is trying to be as environment friendly as possible…or as less damaging to the planet earth. Actually he says – it is just like going back about 60-70 years and lead a middle class life style. Let us see some of the things he does: drinks water from an earthen pot takes bath […]

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Thanks to a book on retirement and many sundry articles on retirement planning….and people realizing (perhaps) my limited ability to talk on other topics….we do end up talking a lot about retirement. This is how they react…I have a little conveniently summarised them as follows: people in the 20s           – ‘what are you talking about?’ […]

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The advantage of being on planet earth for a long time is..you can be a part historian. This may be perhaps a little parochial towards the South Indians who got caught in the scam… The first scam that comes to mind is the Harshad Mehta scam..1992. (I was not born at the Mundhra scandal which […]

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