Beyond redemption

Monday 19 June '06

The war of and over religions has spilled into cyberspace. The Internet hosts some 2.8 billion pages of “god”, 487 million pages of “religion”.

Market meltdown shows Mutual Funds run with the bulls, get mauled by the bears

Monday 12 June '06

Underperformance is worrying: MFs have lagged the Sensex by 3.5 percentage points over a month to 8.7 percentage points over a year

Four pages of fear

Monday 5 June '06

The new tax form won’t catch the big tax evaders. The salaried will be harassed

Call off the wild

Friday 2 June '06

As investors gravitate rapidly to market-sensitive instruments, there’s a growing need to regulate the work of financial planners

Tails of the unexpected

Saturday 20 May '06

May 18/19 crash shows how unpredictable, risky and highly profitable markets are

Silver lining to cloud: good time to buy

Friday 19 May '06

Of course, the conclusion is neither straightforward nor unlayered. But it is directional, it is strategic, it is definitive.

Turning Property Into Profits

Thursday 18 May '06

After productivity jumps in operations, finance and people it’s now time for property to follow

Killing death

Monday 15 May '06

The man lies sprawled out. Blood flows from his head, down the neck, turning his white shirt crimson.

Give us a smash, not a lob, Mr Damodaran

Saturday 13 May '06

SEBI mustn’t pull punches as it gears up to regulate mutual fund distributors; having waited so long, it must move in with full force

Caste myopia

Monday 8 May '06

Occupational immobility and founding principles

Let’s all share

Saturday 29 April '06

For Sebi’s sake, and for ours, its IPO scam order better be spot on

If we don’t meet our targets, there are huge liquid damages: Rao

Friday 28 April '06

‘We have 12 challenges before us, including the upgradation of terminal capacity and lowering dwell time of cargo to 24 hours by 2010’

Fasten your seat belts

Tuesday 25 April '06

Having transited, duty-freed, coffeed, magazined, escalated, trolleyed, parked, taxied in 19 airports across 15 countries, excluding India, I can say with as much conviction as the family across the aisle that Indian airports suck.

Market and mayhem in Meerut

Wednesday 12 April '06

Wealth is spreading to small-town India. When will the sarkar wake up?

Today’s PEs, tomorrow’s profits

Thursday 6 April '06

Numbers tell us that corporate profits this quarter will rise. The market seems to know this already

On track

Wednesday 5 April '06

A Rs 54,700 crore giant can’t rise up and compete, get customer focussed, generate record-breaking surpluses. An organisation whose costs increase at Rs 5,000 crore per annum, irrespective of whatever else it does, cannot turn around.

Driving a turnaround

Wednesday 5 April '06

It’s difficult to even imagine, leave alone believe, that the Indian Railways, a Rs 54,700 crore giant, lumbering since 1996, has turned around over the past two years.

Birth and death

Monday 3 April '06

Does a foetus have ‘awareness’?

To save the girl child — invest

Thursday 30 March '06

How about a chunky tax benefit if the money is transferred to the girl?

Interior furnishing

Monday 20 March '06

Doing up corporate interiors is not an easy job. And while those undertaking this task have to live with it, the bigger sufferers are the neighbours.

Where’ll the Sensex be tomorrow?

Friday 10 March '06

Nobody knows how the stock markets will behave. Look at value, not price, and build wealth