Kunal

One of the most important pieces of financial advice I give to anyone who asks me, is to say that every person who does not have a Health insurance policy (commonly referred to as ‘Mediclaim’) must get one as soon as possible. We have discussed elsewhere about the importance of this as well as how to choose the right...

When India became a nation on August 15, 1947, it was land rife with social problems. Poverty, caste-ism, gender discrimination and many other problems had been bequeathed to India’s newly-formed Government by the colonial rulers. Over the next few decades, successive administrations took steps to deal with these problems in a meaningful way, and it must not be denied...

An emphasis on start-ups and entrepreneurship has been among the stated priorities of the NDA government. Indeed, one of the Prime Minister’s most memorably pre-demonetisation speeches was his declaration from the ramparts of the Red Fort that India must become ‘Number 1 in start-ups’. We have covered elsewhere on these pages the facilities provided for start-ups by the Government in...

Singing in the Rain is perhaps Hollywood’s most beloved musical comedy. An effervescent blend of music, dance and acting, the Gene Kelly – Debbie Reynolds starrer is certainly a classic, and the title song evokes the best of a city in the rainy season, as Kelly swivels around lamp-posts and dances around puddles. For Mumbai, sadly, the rainy season has...

Every few years the media in our country erupts with the news of another self-styled ‘Godman’ (and in the memorable case of Radhe Maa, Godwoman) embroiled in some form of legal trouble. What form this legal trouble takes, ranges from land encroachment and money laundering to rape and murder. In the most recent instance, where the self-styled ‘Guru Dr....