Musings

In the recent debate on healthcare in India covering corporate hospitals, pharma drug regulation, medical devices price regulation at variou...

I watched the movie( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velaikkaran_(2017_film) ) and took away following key learnings Consumerism has a karm...

The movie Padmavat(earlier named Padmavati) focussed on the battle between Alahudin Khilji, Rani Padmavat and Raja Ratan Sen. The poem story...

Yesterday, I watched the Akshay Kumar movie 'Padman'. It narrates the story of the brave entrepreneur  Arunachalam Muruganantham  (r...

http://www.tflguide.com/club-mahindra-membership-fees-review/  This excellent blogpost makes the point that memberships of Club Mahindra, S...

Having booked outstation cabs for self/family across Tamilnadu, Kerala, Orissa, Bengal and Maharashtra, I thought to write some points on th...

I took a 2month Hathway subscription and then when relatively hassle free, took the annual subscription at 50MBps speed, 300GB/month annual...

In the 2016-17 annual report of Reliance Industries, they disclosed that the average data consumption per Reliance Jio user is  10GB/month (...

Let me disclose upfront that Urbanclap is cofounded by an IIM Ahmedabad senior of mine Abhiraj Bahl, but this fact does not bias my views. A...

Recently, I read an article by the Collaborative Fund Blogger Morgan Hausel about why everyone should write http://www.collaborativefund....

While reading the Indian Insolvency Code 2016 (http://www.indiacode.nic.in/acts-in-pdf/2016/201631.pdf ) , I realized that student loan debt...

Since the last 7months, I’ve been using Instamojo to collect payments for an event which I co-host. Having collected close to Rs ~80,000 ov...

There were three distinct events last week which provoked me to write this post The lament of the Mulund Fine Arts Society that they had ...

In Jan-17, Uber euphemistically announced 'price adjustments' as their communication of  increased fares. With them earlier having a...

Yesterday, I watched Kaabil, a movie starring Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam, which centred around the story of a blind couple whose married...

All professional institutes hold out to the public that their members besides being technically qualified, are well regulated and obliged to...

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This month, members of the Valuepickr forum ( http://forum.valuepickr.com/ ) decided to meet up in person. As a fellow member suggested half...

How many times did you  take a selfie/photo to post on Facebook/Instagram instead of enjoying the moment Check your mobile phone to see ...

I was going through the questionaire for the ICSI award out of interest. Following points struck me as points which even more investors/prof...

Ok I admit it. The title is a blatant effort to win some SEO brownie points. But thats par of the course these days, and given the uniquenes...

Ok I admit it. The title is a blatant effort to win some SEO brownie points. But thats par of the course these days, and given the uniquenes...

Recently, I was reading a book by Parag Saigaonkar wherein the below passage struck me-it relates to the author being asked to certify home...

For finance professionals(whether they be CA, CPA, CFA,FRM, MBA, CS, CWA etc), the difference between others and them is that they owe a dut...

Whether it is Siddhivinayak temple in Dadar, Mahalaxmi temple, Tirupati Balaji temple, Shirdi  etc, temples are associated with long Qs for ...

Recently, I had to visit Nashik by public transport on short notice. Unsurprisingly, trains were not available and buses would have taken a ...

This post's title suggests that Indians read a lot, it is just that they do not buy enough new books. As this question on Quora suggest...

My first introduction to business novels came with Eli Goldratt's books-The Goal etc. Then further it progressed to real life biographie...

While reading the Coca Cola conference Call transcript at the CAGNY(Consumer analysts group of New York), I stumbled across this nugget rela...

In Mar-16, I read about Brand Factory( A Kishore Biyani led venture) claiming better prices on apparel as compared to the big online platfor...

Having been an Airtel employee for 3yrs with the associated benefits of a generous phone usage allowance permitting virtually unlimited mobi...

Last Sunday, I was shopping with my wife in D-Mart, and we had to buy honey. Her first choice was Dabur Honey, despite its 25% premium to t...

As an Airtel employee, I had always thought that there was better scope for a great online interface. In the era of ecommerce, the website ...