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Education used to be an end in itself. The Victorian education model focussed on a grounding in the Classics and foreign languages so as to prepare the young nobility of England for careers in law, foreign service and administration. The assumption underlying this system was that a generalist education suited young men (women rarely opted for careers those days)...

We have frequently emphasised the usefulness of Mutual Funds as an investment option for young investors in these pages. In fact, apart from Senior Citizens, who are naturally extremely risk-averse, mutual funds should be a part of every investor’s portfolio. Image Source Fundamentally we need to understand what are Mutual Funds. Simply put, it is a pooling of assets of investors,...

Everything in life is negotiable, as any good corporate lawyer will tell you. This axiom is just as applicable to home loans as to anything else. Image source So what are they things you can do to get the best deal from your lender? Let us discuss a few. All rates are negotiable Bankers will typically talk about ‘base rates’, ‘floating rates’, ‘Bank...

Since there has been art, there have been critics, and since there have been critics, there have been negative reviews. As for books, there is never a shortage of people handing out scathing reviews, the more so in recent times, since the emergence of websites like Goodreads and the possibility of leaving a review on a book’s ‘product page’...

For a country where cricket is a religion, Twenty20 cricket is like the newest, shiniest God, a modern Baal before whom we lay our attention span and money. India’s love affair with the shortest form of the sport began in right earnest when India won the 2007 T20 world cup in South Africa. An untested, unheralded team led by...