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We have spoken at length in articles here about the importance of being adequately covered by both life and medical insurance. If you have been around looking for a policy, you would have encountered something else as well – a ‘Critical Illness Cover’, being sold as an add-on to either of these policies. Image Courtesy : Linkedin First of all, what...

Of course you have a smartphone. The odds are, you are reading this article on a smartphone. You have, in the last half-an-hour, used your smartphone to check the time, read your emails, laughed at a joke someone has sent on WhatsApp and checked how many ‘likes’ your last selfie got on Facebook. Or you may not have done any...

You have definitely heard the saying ‘Do not put all your eggs in one basket’ at some point in your life. Whether you eat eggs or not, this might be just about the most important proverb you will ever hear. The underlying logic is sound, inasmuch as it concerns eggs – fewer will break if you do not overload...

They say learning is a process that never ends, but our habits are formed in our childhood and youth, the imprints of which we carry with us to our graves. Reading, writing and arithmetic are skills we pick up in schools, but the management of money isn’t something teachers cover alongside fractions and the history of India’s freedom struggle....

In a recent interview with the IIT-Bombay Broadcasting Channel (one of the student associations which runs a social media platform) the former Supreme Court Judge of India, Markandey Katju, made a statement that elicited quite a reaction on social media. The Question asked and the answer given, is reproduced below: Q: Students at IITs were often accused of, you know, using...