If you are a Tata Motors watcher, the sales of Nano should worry you, right? Well, not so fast. The sales of Nano will not do any great magic to the sales of Tata Motors. Nor will it affect the margins. To make an impact on the books of Tata Motors, Nano has to sell […]

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  At the outset let me clarify – this post was not triggered by Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate. I was told that the participants were nicely picked up from their homes, put up in a nice hotel, treated very well, given gifts – and they were overall very happy! Be that as it may, this […]

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This week had some interesting events…. – a friend was offered a 30% discount on a retail purchase of a flat in one of Mumbai suburbs – a lovely property belonging to Hindustan Unilever Ltd. did not find any buyer in an auction – at Worli – one girl was killed in Delhi by a […]

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A few days back I wrote a piece on ‘Young, Glamorous, Riskless and Broke’. This was about the kids born in the 1980s. Let us take a kid born in 1987 – would have graduated in 2007-8 and finished his/her MBA in 2009. This was not a great season to graduate, but would have found […]

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  Unless your parents have set the Thames, Ganges, Kosi, Nile on fire, chances are they have not managed their investments well. They may have done well, but it may not have been their strategy – could be luck! So here are somethings that your parents / elders / teachers may tell you…and you should…ignore! […]

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The MCA mandate is out and all companies are in a ‘searching’ mode of how to comply with the mandate. Predominantly there are 2 options – buy software, learn the skill and do the tagging yourself, or give your annual return to a ‘conversion’ specialist. The conversion specialist will convert it for you and give […]

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