Kunal

‘Investment’, in an economic sense, means the purchase of any asset, not for immediate consumption, but with the expectation that it will generate wealth in the future. E.g. Buying a house you intend to live in is not an investment, but buying a house you give on rent, is. In financial terms, an investment is an asset that will generate...

One of the more interesting things I realised while living in the USA was the amount of importance attached by people there to their medical / health insurance – and the contrast with how little people think about it in India. Healthcare is, of course, completely privatised and obscenely expensive in USA, which means that having insurance has become a...

Anybody who has spent any time at all in school knows these facts: India is the second-most populous country in the world By 2025, it will be the most-populous country in the world. For years, this was seen as a ‘problem’. Public service advertisements ran on Doordarshan talking about the need to control India’s population crisis, public discourse never failed to mention...

If you grew up during the nineties, it’s a fair bet that one of the movies you watched several times (apart from, embarrassingly, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun), was Titanic. And if you saw it, you remember the lines at the beginning, uttered by a 102-year old survivor of that shipwreck, which seemed to define not just the ship, but...

One of the best things about being young and reckless is…well you’re young and reckless, and that’s about all that’s required to make life enjoyable. But sooner or later, we have to shed that ‘reckless’ tag and take responsibility for our lives. Generally, that happens when a person begins to earn his or her own living – and a big...