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Equity Mutual Funds Vs Real Estate investmentDisclaimer: I am NOT saying that real estate is a bad investment. What I am trying to say is Real Estate is just like any other asset class and make an informed bet when you put your life's savings into it. It may bring you handsome returns which no other asset class can but it can also give you lousy returns or worst put you in a debt trap.The

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Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-5173307419585065622008-07-10T20:17:00.002+05:302008-07-10T20:21:37.641+05:30

So it’s my 3rd weekend at SIBM today. Yes, we have a weekend off on Friday. I have the same feeling today as I used to have on every Friday while in the IT industry. Loads of mails used to come in which all said basically one thing; TGIF (Thank God, Its Friday!). This Friday culture is extremely rampant in the IT industry. There is even a restaurant named as TGIF on Airport Road, Bangalore. What

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-34181132387693814942008-06-18T23:33:00.009+05:302008-06-19T00:02:34.241+05:30

Here I was in front of the SIBM building on Senapati Bapat Road at 11:30 AM on the 6th of June 2008 to begin my MBA journey. Excited, enthusiastic, determined, and courageous on one hand and nervous, afraid, cautious on the other. This was my state of mind that day. A minibus took us all the way to the SIBM Lavale Campus which I had been hearing about from so many days. This ‘Lavale’ thing was

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-47744492952706626792007-10-03T12:35:00.000+05:302007-10-03T12:49:36.709+05:30

I was extremely happy to see the Supreme Court lashing out at the Tamil Nadu government for calling a ‘Bandh’ couple of days back. I had iterated in one of my earlier posts Save Namma Bengaluru about how these bandhs in India are not voluntary and are forced closures of business and cause immense social & economic turmoil. They intend to do it for a cause but almost always are nothing more than a

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-22905418687513020382007-06-14T15:29:00.000+05:302007-06-14T15:45:25.219+05:30

28 States, 7 Union Territories, 2 Linguistic families with 23 Official Languages, 4 Major and innumerable minor religions, several castes and sub-castes, several tribes -1 Country! -- That’s what we learned in school to be our ‘Unity in Diversity’.Reflecting about this cliché often talked about in India, I understand that keeping over a Billion people as one nation state is a great feat in itself

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-59888240829076192152007-03-06T18:28:00.000+05:302007-03-06T18:30:18.672+05:30

A linguistic minority passes a resolution in a local government body that it wants to merge with a neighboring state which is home to its language. A great regional language actor, who is adored by many, passes away a natural death. A religious minority takes out a protest march to condemn an event in a far off country which is followed by a procession by another community in the same localities

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-89930740124798699602007-02-21T11:55:00.000+05:302007-02-21T12:10:00.203+05:30

There is a particular ‘extra’ Tax advantage you can derive out of a Dividend Payout option of an ELSS Mutual Fund Scheme using a simple trick.Usually mutual fund schemes lure investors in the months preceding the financial year end into ELSS schemes to boost their assets. They also declare huge dividends and set a date for the dividend allotment. When a dividend payout happens on the prescribed

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-76563924524685913372007-02-13T10:29:00.000+05:302007-02-13T10:37:57.554+05:30

You must have heard the terms ‘Human Life Value’ (HLV) and must have been scared to death by insurance agents about how much risk you have and how much insurance you should take. There have been very popular advertisements on TV which show how everybody needs insurance, It portrays, “I don’t need Insurance” and then the ‘don’t’ word gets dropped off due to accident, fire or something and the

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-4732351194785005702007-02-06T09:39:00.000+05:302007-02-06T10:11:01.226+05:30

Insurance has always been the front runner amongst all the financial products in the Indian market place. The latest upsurge in the middle class income, a buoyant economy and a bull market has led to an even more increase in the Insurance products available today and the darling among them has always been Life Insurance.Life Insurance is actually a very uncomfortable thing to digest. It is a

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Money is an amazing thing. Although understanding money and financial instruments is so fascinating and so rewarding, it still remains an area which is studied and implemented only by specialists. The common man either ignores it or the little more concerned one at least listens to the life insurance agent. And of course everybody goes to a CA at the end of the year! (Assuming you aren’t like one

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-27220180477702801622007-02-02T09:52:00.000+05:302007-02-02T10:03:40.619+05:30

An overtly rude lady was the lucky one yesterday in the immensely popular KBC. Throughout the show, she behaved very aggressively, too overconfident and showing little respect to one of Bollywood's greatest superstar. One one occasion, when asked how many numbers are there with 9 in them from 1 to 100, she took an audience poll ! After the poll, when SRK suggested that she could have counted it

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1147701164510835462006-05-15T19:20:00.000+05:302006-05-15T19:23:49.846+05:30

You have a boulevard. Keep huge rolling wooden logs in the middle of that road. Put in some smaller varieties of those logs which can roll a bit faster. Now if water starts flowing from one end not hard enough to blow these logs away, you can imagine how it will fill the gaps and race ahead of everybody.When the huge load of vehicles start flowing in the morning, I always have this scene in my

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1141819912801154832006-03-08T17:35:00.000+05:302006-03-08T17:46:15.376+05:30

"It's better in Goa" is a fond memory I have of a T-Shirt caption which was very popular with Goa tourists when I first went there in the early Nineties with my parents. This time, the T-Shirt wasn't that popular but it is still better in Goa...After a lot of discussions and planning (all though mails) we decided on the Goa tour in the first week of March. It was a memorable trip, full of fun,

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1138727392291627902006-01-31T22:38:00.000+05:302006-01-31T22:40:44.526+05:30

Right from childhood, everybody is fascinated by those two words. And yes, those two words are always together. My younger cousin Rohan used to say, ‘Udya maza Happy Badde’ ahe, and that’s what I feel today :-)Many a times I try to convince myself that there is nothing great in the day, it is just another day. I will get up the same way, get ready, have my same idly-dosa breakfast, come to the

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1138632112925406482006-01-30T20:07:00.000+05:302006-01-30T20:11:52.946+05:30

First day of the opening and I was off to see ‘Rang De Basanti’ at Rex Cinema. Before I say something about the movie itself, let me say something about parking, yes PARKING! That is the dirtiest word, if you are on Brigade road, Bangalore. It was my friend’s brand new Honda Dio and as the traffic cop didn’t allow us inside the theatre premises, we parked it in a Bank’s compound after Bank hours

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1137743726692710902006-01-20T13:15:00.000+05:302006-01-20T14:30:54.903+05:30

In the book, “The Great Indian Dream”, there are many things which I disagree. I don’t know whether I am totally correct but I simply do not agree. I will highlight some of those points here and leave the points which I think are correct for the later post.1. Sacrifice your Lipstick for his Toilet.A comparison has been made such as some $ Billion is spent in Europe on Ice Cream and an equivalent

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1137676368702858312006-01-19T18:41:00.000+05:302006-01-19T18:42:48.753+05:30

Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG) was blasted in India in 1991.The fruits of LPG are all very visible to us now. The explosive growth of Aviation, Automobile, Telecom, IT, Real Estate, Consumer Goods, Education, Health Care, BFSI and so many other sectors is proof enough that the LPG model has made India a better place to live in.On the other hand, we hear stories of farmers

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1119593799238580522005-06-24T11:44:00.000+05:302005-06-24T11:46:39.243+05:30

If I called Trivandrum the Land of coconuts, Bangalore or even the entire South India can easily be called the land of bath.I found it very interesting to see ‘Rice bath’ in the menu items of all the Udupi hotels here. Yes, they are called Udupi hotels and are more like small vegetarian snacks/meals hotels you will find near Bus Stands in Maharashtra. But these hotels are very well maintained,

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1118047109299068172005-06-06T14:04:00.000+05:302005-06-06T14:14:50.946+05:30

Friendship day poem ... August 3, 2003I had a dream, a dream of wealtha dream i never thought would suffice so well.No, I didn't get a pot filled of gold,instead i got hearts which are wealthier than gold.I had a dream, a dream of healthmental well being I thought, was difficult to attainbut as i met you my opinions changed,the jingles of life have come again.I had a dream, a dream of being

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1117782117424417642005-06-03T12:28:00.000+05:302005-06-03T12:31:57.426+05:30

“Do not use paper cups for drinking water, it cost 60 paisa per cup” – so stands a notice in the refreshment room on my floor. Well, the room contains water and coffee vending machine for ‘refreshments’. To make for some exquisite graffiti, somebody in a typical school’s toilet style has scribbled on its side, “yeah.. I know it’s a big deal for a $2 Billion Company”.Right from the day I joined

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1117621136298468022005-06-01T15:47:00.000+05:302005-06-01T15:48:56.300+05:30

Saturday Evening, after Ajay Devgan, it was Rain God’s turn to say, “Main Aisa Hi Hoon!!” What I experienced that day was my worst ever fight with nature and today when I am safe at home, I can think of the adventure to be something thrilling. But this adventure could have been a misadventure pretty easily.It was a sunny Saturday evening when I and one of my friends went out for a Movie in

Parikshitnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13272822.post-1117521171336505282005-05-31T11:56:00.000+05:302005-06-01T12:51:42.606+05:30

A Follow up from the second week in TCS-TVM.. Oct 4, 2004**************************************************************************************Well, it's going gr8 after 2nd week, the sad part being we were working on sat till 6...Small tests, lots of group activities, and time pass form the whole of day everyday. 2 breaks of half hr each plus a rushing 45 min lunch are the only times we people

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This is a email post of mine from Trivandrum some 8 months back... Sep 29, 2004**************************************************************************************Hello there from Trivandrum... well thiruvananthapuram but no one calls it that way here. TCS is great and going all out. Its 6 AM wake up time, bus at 7:30, and office from 9 to 6. A hectic schedule especially after waking up at 9

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Hi Everybody!Starting off today to try my hand at blogging. Let's see what I can do about this :o)Read some facinating articles from Hrishi and Vijay Kaka and am all inspired to start doing it myself.Keep your eye at this site... I may have something to offer :-)

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