Infographics of the week - Food, Maps, Privacy & Politics [Oct 31]

Every week, PHD celebrates the art of chart making by showcasing 5 beautiful infographics for your fun, inspiration and information.
Browse 100s more wonderful infographics and have fun.
Flickr Privacy Settings across the World

This world map shows privacy settings used by a million sample users from 2005. The spots show photosharing options - red (turned off), green [...]

Here is a simple way to get Rs. 70 Lakhs when you are 55 - DONT touch your PF

Here is a simple piece of advice to literally everyone who is working: do NOT touch your Provident Fund, no matter what.
Provident fund (commonly known as PF, EPF) is a retirement benefit facility provided to Indian employees by their employers of companies that have more than 20 employees. The option is applicable for practically [...]

Pay money but seek no control !

That seems to be the motto of some of the service providers.
How often we end up paying for services and (or) products through our nose yet we get little or no control on how it is delivered to us or what we are getting. Take for example “airline seats”, despite the rapid advancements in [...]

Making sense out of NEWsense

Imagine a kid having this conversation with his mom,“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will some one run a marathon in space?”“It will happen when Mumbai university lists in BSE”“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will the university list in BSE?”“They will list when Rakhi Sawant looks like this”“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will Rakhi Sawant dresses [...]

The Calvin Fund!

Well, thats not a new mutual fund in the market, but I can understand your confusion, given that several AMCs have tiger funds. Calvin fund is the name I am giving to my investment drive. The aim is to purchase a complete collection of my favorite strips, “Calvin & Hobbes - The complete collection” which [...]

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 [...]