Kunal

Property, or real estate, is usually bought for the purpose of living in it (residential houses / flats), or using it to generate an income (agricultural or commercial plots and premises). However, of late there has been a strong trend towards buying property from an investment perspective. In such a case, the intent is to sell the property after...

It’s a common saying that one should not trust everything one reads on the internet. This is just as true about reviews of products / books / restaurants and hotels as it is about anything else. At worst, they are outright false, at best, they are written by reviewers who have no business reviewing the products they write about. Why...

The dictionary defines ‘Impulse’ as a sudden, strong and unreflective urge or desire to act. An impulse purchase, then, is a sudden and un-planned purchase, and like most things done ‘on an impulse’, it is something we often regret later. Indeed, impulse purchases not only clutter our houses, but they can even wreck the household budgets, so we should...

A prudent investor always diversifies his portfolio into a variety of asset classes. And while equities and mutual funds are the most prominent and, one might even say, glamorous of these, government savings instruments are just as important. The most important of these is, as we have often mentioned in these pages, the Public Provident Fund, or PPF. This is...

When it comes to dealing with money, there ought to be no difference in how it works for men and for women. After all, money itself is gender-neutral. But in fact, men and women tend to think about and treat money quite differently, and while we realize that there will always be exceptions to the rule, there are a...