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It’s been a while since I posted anything here. And as one would expect, Alexa tells me that more than 20 million websites have managed to do better than me over the past five odd months. Anyway, blog statistics notwithstanding, it is time for me to ...

The Indian TV screen appears to have taken away the image of the crusading journalist who fearlessly campaigned for a cause and investigated leads to come up with disclosures, which satisfied (i) the journalistic urge of the writer, and (ii) made for g...

At the risk of sounding unduly formal, I take immense pleasure and pride in welcoming Mr.Ajit Grewal as the first contributor to this blog/site. He brings with him multiple decades of global experience in banking and credit risk management. In recent y...

I recently did a guest lecture at one of the local MBA colleges in Hyderabad, India. On one side, it took me back to the days when I used to be a starry-eyed student myself. On the other, it made me reflect upon how we tend to give undue importance to ...

The recession of 2007 may have felt like a once-in-a-lifetime disaster, but it’s just the latest shock in what has become a more volatile world for the typical American household, according to a leading expert on household finances. In a new artic...

Hello All, Had a creative epiphany while stuck in a bad traffic jam on my way to work today. So ended up designing and uploading a new logo. Would love to hear your opinion, so do take a moment to comment on this post. Cheers...

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is often the most ill-prepared and ignored. After going without any intake for 6 hours or more, the body needs a good helping of each nutrient group in decent proportions. The quick, typical breakfas...

Have always had a keen interest in advertising...although nothing close to making me of any consequence to the industry... Nonetheless, am thinking of starting off a weekly post of reviewing two ads that appear in Indian media...one good and one not...

Sometimes I wonder about the power of macroeconomics...Not coz it has such a profound impact on the way countries and economies run, but also on the way it affects public thinking and outlook. The latter for me is the more important of the two for some...

I am a dewdrop. Here I am, lying peacefully on the petal of a beautiful red rose. Life happens to be a bed of roses for me, in a very literal sense. I do not remember my birth, neither do I know whom was I born to. Without a worldly identity, here I am...