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In Hindu mythology, there is a deity named Chitragupta, who is tasked with maintaining records of human actions. Upon arrival at Yamaloka after death, Chitragupta reviews these deeds. If good deeds outweigh the bad, the door to Swarga (heaven) is opened; otherwise, one may end up in hell.  As human …

Happy Republic Day! Like an annual ritual, I have been writing one article every year asking my friends and readers to stay away from Future & Options (F&O) trading. The reason for this caution is simple. Of the 100-plus IT Returns (of serious F&O traders) filed by us, only three …

“The Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposes a penalty of Rs.1337 Crores and yet another penalty for Rs.936 Crore on Google in a week’s time”. You would have read this in the media recently. This is a brief note on this issue which may be of interest to you. The …

Moonlighting is perfect. What is wrong with it? Moonlighting, as the name suggests, is an additional or second job done discreetly at night (or outside the regular office hours) to earn extra income or for professional pleasure! Some large companies are objecting to moonlighting by their employees. I don’t find …

I was observing the advertisements during the telecast in the current IPL season. The players were looking like outdoor hoardings! Their cap had four different advertisements; on the front, back and both sides; then each shoulder had two ads; the back and stomach had two, and the two legs had …

If you ask a Rapid-fire question Which is the jumping creature? to the HR person of a tech company, the undoubted answer will be Engineers! (Frogs come next). When I interact with founders and promoters, I hear from them that no engineer works for more than 15-18 months in a …

My association with Startups goes back to 2009; since then, I would have worked with over 200 start-ups. While writing this, I realized that only 7 of them are functioning as on date; most of them have failed in the first year of operation. My analysis coincides with the global …

The new-age tech companies who are making a big noise in society today are basically Door Delivery Companies (call them as ‘DDC’) or Education technology (ed-tech) or Financial Technology (FinTech) or Digital Brokers or Commission Agents (call them as ‘DBA’) Is it a good idea to buy the shares of …

Is Gold edible? We, the middle-class society always used to grumble about the wealthy people saying that ‘they may have Golden plates, but can they eat gold? They also have to eat rice only’ ‘You may be rich or powerful, in the end, you have to eat food only!’ Do …

The most frequently used term in business news is “startups’ The startups are valued at so many billion dollars, startups are going for IPO, startups are funded by venture funds, startups get incentives, startups turn as unicorns, so on and so forth. What does a startup mean? Whether all newly …