Sorry Minister it is a Systemic Failure! If you have seen 3 scams (big ones) and bribing (rampant) bribing in PSU banks all your life, this so called scam should not come as a shock (or surprise) at all. Once in a while such transactions erupt and the news channels have something to scream about. […]

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I had got Amar Pandit’s book for Children. Here is my daughter’s understanding of the book. She is in 4th standard, Apeejay School, Nerul, Navi Mumbai..here it is in her own words. I had posted a part of the article earlier too..this is the full one.. Recently my father got a copy of a book […]

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Who pays the highest amount of tax in the country? Mr. Ambani? or Mr. Narayanamurthy? Well neither. Let us see the life history of a typical government or a bank employee. They join for service after a competitive exam – after that they are happy to hold on to that job for life. They earn […]

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In what was being seen as a turf battle between sebi and irda, the winner as of now seems to be Irda. It shows the power of the people in the life Insurance business. Now if you have LIC, SBI, Hdfc, Icici, …each with a few ‘000 crores of stake in the insurance business and […]

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NPS – New pension scheme or National pension scheme….does attract a lot of attention from many investors. However the jury is still out on whether one should invest in it nor not invest. One major (I mean MAJOR) DRAWBACK is you have no clue what will happen once you finish the accumulation stage and go […]

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There is now a decent size clamor for Sachin getting the Bharat Ratna. Easily the most prestigious award in the country it is normally given when person is dead or dying. There was no dispute when Pandit Nehru got it. Of course that was at a time when people like Maulana Abdul Kalam said government […]

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Many people ask me why I suggest New India for medical insurance, but never suggest LIC for life insurance. The answers are simple. Medical insurance is a simple product and the probability of getting a good interpretation of the policy is quite high with New India. In fact if you have not lied in the […]

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