Isha foundation is doing a lot of good work in the fields of education, girl child, and environment. One of their projects is a tree planting program..and for as little as Rs. 50 you can ‘sponsor’ a tree… here..http://giveisha.org/myiris in case you wish to give for education, you can do so here: http://giveisha.org/Isha%20Vidhya     […]

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The worst thing about writing a blog and trying to be original everyday is a quick realisation that you cannot! Frankly there are only 140 pages that you need to write in personal finance. Beyond that it is re writing. Like if you have read Bhagavatham, Ramayana and Mahabharatha ….you have really captured all the […]

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A friend called in to say ‘Subra even if one reader can start saying “I s…..d up and have made investment mistakes’ instead of saying the following: a. my aunt is an agent so I took a policy b. my father asked me to buy a house c. my relationship manager CHURNED my mutual fund […]

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i do a post a day for sure…today I missed it, an absolutely no clue why. actually i have 10-20 posts already done and a date put on them…just missed 3.april. i was attending a bhoomi poojan of a builder friend…so did not check the blog too… anyway the bhoomi pooja was good…

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A couple of days ago I did a post about ‘skewed rental market’…. and there were many comments. The one I liked best was by a guy named Sanjay Sood. He said “Mr Subra is just misguiding whole generation. No one can gurantee return in any market, may be equity or real estate, Our market […]

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I really cannot say why I run this blog. But here the following are NOT the reasons: 1. I have no retail product other than this blog (and the ad revenues are so pathetic that I will not miss it if it goes away). 2. Dealing with retail is very, very, very tough for people […]

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Yesterday I met a guy who has been a bear for a long time…Last year Dec 2011 he had told me the following: 1. Volumes will shrink in 2011, and a few brokerage houses will go down. 2. I had asked him “Is Reliance a good buy at about Rs. 12oo”. He said why not […]

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