Once in a while a man comes along willing to offer you his everything. Including his life. It is not easy, not many of us can do it. If I give somebody a book out of my super overflowing library, I keep track to get it back. I have no clue when I gave something […]
Everybody and his uncle and aunt wants to talk about the great Indian entrepreneur..and how he is great. Well he is not great, he is generally s…ed. If he had a choice he would be in a happy government job, assured of an indexed pension, take leave to see the country…and generally be counting his […]
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?’ […]
So many people today advising on equities that it is good fun talking to some of them. Two good offers that I have got recently are quite stunning…not really relevant for me but here is the story. First is a big deal in terms of size – it is worthwhile for the broker to do […]
This is a fantastic headline to catch people’s attention, that is all. I have no clue whether the market will go up, go down, remain sideways,….NO CLUE at all. I mean it, really. I was in a bank class when the index had reached 10,000 (year 2008 I think?). One of the kids asked me […]
For those of you who do not use what is parroting – it is repeating some cliche statements without understanding what it means. It also includes those statements which some of them may have no clue what it means. Let us take some statements which I hear…and some which are on the media: 1. Sir […]
Sunday ka philosophy quota….by the time you read this I would have finished running (people are so cruel, they call it walking when they see me!) the Standard Chartered Mumbai (half) Marthon, 2011…hopefully in good time… There is always an opportunity to help others – and you have no clue from where it can come. […]