Looking for a house in Chennai…

We are looking for a house in Chennai for rental, the areas of interest are velachery, adyar, nandanam. It should be a 2bhk, we dont mind some furniture insider though. If you know anyone who is ready to let their property to us drop a line in comments and I shall follow up with you. [...]

Big Bazaar’s Innovative Parking Scheme

Have you ever wondered how unbusinesslike it is when you stop by at a store to make them profitable they charge you for parking? You might say, “heh, but the parking space costs”, but why charge all of them when some of them eventually make profits for the retailer.
Thats exactly how Big Bazaar in Chennai [...]

PHD’s Regular Blah #8

Stop doing what you are and go read Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin. Even if you have already read it, do it again. It helps keeping your mind alive.
My plans to start Calvin Fund are slightly delayed, thanks to my forgetful finger, I lost my login password at the trading site and would take [...]

Are fund managers poor marketers?

Come Ferbruary, every fund house worth its NAV comes up with a hoard of ELSS / Tax planning mutual fund offerings and promotions. These days you open any (business) magazine and you see atleast a dozen ads on how MFs can save you Rs. 33,360* or something on taxes. First up the claim that they [...]

Find out whether you need a house or not in 60 seconds

Most of my classmates and friends have started purchasing houses. This coupled with the fact that I am in coveted DINK (double income no kids) group now have prompted me to do some preliminary research on buying a house. In my quest few things became obvious,

Any house worth its tiles costs more than a million [...]

10 good things about Seoul

My stay here is coming to an end in the weekend. I would be back in Chennai to read Metroplus with a sip of strong decoction coffee on Monday morning. Aah, the joys of coffee and news. Even though I am not here as a tourist I could see quite a few places and interact [...]

Seoul First Impressions

Its been a couple of days since I have arrived here. Some of the first impressions about the city.

The trees here are amazing. They change colours every season. Now most of them are yellow and leaves are falling. The kind of leaves you would have seen in Mohabbatein and wondered where on the earth [...]