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Charts & Analysis

Monthly Moves: Consolidation in March

The Great Monthly Move post is here! A small negative month follows the great Jan+Feb story. And the Sensex: And yes, a great Jan + Feb + March too, the best ...
Mutual Funds

Markets Down 10% in FY 2011-12

After the financial year 2011-12, where do we stand? The market is down about 10% (from 5833 in March 2011 to 5295). There was a huge spike in the last week of ...
Economy

Defining India’s Poor

I write at Yahoo on the recent poverty report: India may be a poor country but we all differ on what "poor" is. There was a furore last year when a ...
Economy

Budget 2012 Expects To Cut Petrol Subsidy 35%

Apparently, in this budget, we are going to cut the petroleum subsidy by a mind-boggling 35%. By nearly 25,000 crores (Rs. 250 billion *) From the budget ...
Commentary

Rupay Kicks Off with Debit Cards

The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) has started Rupay, a domestic card payment network. NPCI already is at the back-end of the India wide bank ...
Economy

The Vodafone Overreach and the Failure of Trust

From my Yahoo Piece: Vodafone’s Dutch Subsidiary bought a company in the Cayman Islands, in a transaction paid for in foreign currency. Vodafone is a ...
Economy

The Negative List: Service Tax Exemptions in a Nutshell

Archiving my Yahoo Piece: The Service Tax provisions in the budget detail out 17 areas on which you will not be charged a tax, and for absolutely everything ...
Economy

What the Finance Minister Didn’t Say

Archiving my Yahoo Piece: Pranab Mukherjee has presented a budget that has left everyone wondering what really happened and whether we should give it more ...
Startups

FREE E-Book: The Startup Tax in India

I consolidated material from all the posts on the Startup Tax in India and put it into an easy-to-download E-Book (PDF). I hope you like it!  Edit: The ...
General

Moving To Bangalore Next Week

I’m moving, next week, to Bangalore. Twitter followers may already know, since I’ve been talking about it on and off. We moved out of BLR in 2008, to ...