One day when you are 40, your wife will scream at you saying ‘You have done NOTHING’ for our old age….. So you will feel guilty and continue to watch TV….but there will be no action…. Then one day at lunch your colleague will tell you …’hey you know what I just bought a pension […]
I started off as a fan of Meru cabs – largely using it for airport trips initially. In fact at one point Meru became an addiction especially in Delhi and Bengaluru. In other cities Meru became very useful especially because I had no clue about distances and the geography. Then Meru started looking more and […]
Here is a completely different perspective on real estate costs!! For a typical middle class person – say earning Rs. 6 lakhs at age 43..obviously houses look damn expensive in Mumbai. However when you look at the salaries in the BFSI space – banks, mutual funds, life and gen insurance companies, brokerage….it is common […]
We want a swanky airport like New Delhi. We tell our friends Delhi airport is better than…..name it and it is likely to be true. However if DIAL were to levy a Rs. 350 levy on passengers, we do not wish to pay it. We want good, swanky, financial services companies – mutual funds, […]
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 […]
When a banker aged 58 buys a UNIT LINKED PLAN…do you feel sorry for him or say ‘well all your life you did to your clients did you not?’. A banker spends all his life dealing with legal documents, he knows the value of the signature that he puts on the paper, correct? He is […]
When a person joins a company (actually any job – bank, government, army, private sector….) he/she gets an appointment letter. This letter has a ‘Gross Cost to Company’ figure…which looks good and impressive…say Rs. 600,000. Now the kid who gets this letter thinks he is going to get a cheque of Rs. 50,000 every month. […]