Huh

One can’t say a beautiful girl that she is beautiful or face consequences. No matter even if you are the President of a country.
“A Pakistani cleric has issued a fatwa against Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for flirting with US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.”
Agreed that after Benajir’s demise, Zardari is looking but this is [...]

The Five minute management course

Yes, the markets are not good. But some humor won’t hurt during these times. 
Lesson 1: 
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. 
The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. 
When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. 
Before she [...]

Was Indira Gandhi a visionary?

Lehman Brothers is already down. Bear Stearns and WaMu sold. AIG has been nationalised. Fortis too has been nationalised by BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) yesterday. Bradford & Bringley gulped by UK. Many to follow. One after another bank is being taken over by the respective governments.
India has a lot many of these nationalised banks [...]

Good Ones

It just so happened that I came across the following and considered it worth a share.
First: (an excerpt from WSJ’s news on Buffett’s USD 5 bn injection in Goldman)
Mr. Buffett received a call at 4:30 p.m. that Saturday from a private investment firm trying to assemble a group to buy the embattled financial giant. “I’m [...]

Justice finally

Six of the 11 accused in the Khairlanji killings case have been given death sentence and two have been sentenced to life imprisonment sentence by a court in Bhandara on Wednesday. Source
It did take time for the justice to be delivered but indeed a job done. The gruesome incident is probably only one of the many [...]

Welcome to Sajjanpur

I am a fan of Shyam Benegal movies and there is always an endeavor to watch his directorial pieces. Most of us know him for his movies from the parallel cinema movement like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika. Other memorable ones are Zubeida, Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda, The making of Mahatma and Bose, the forgotten [...]

Amazing world, amazing people

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claims that Mickey Mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything he touches impure. The sheikh said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed. The cleric has held off on condemning other Disney characters until he can figure out, “What the hell is Goofy?” (Source)
I thought [...]

Yet another extraordinary event

The yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills fell to 0.02 percent early afternoon New York trade on Wednesday amid investors’ panicked scramble into the safe haven of ultra short-dated government securities.
The 3-month U.S. Treasury bill yield last traded at 0.02 percent as an actual trade and had traded negative earlier yesterday. Its so bad that [...]

Risk

My definition of RISK: Reckless Investing Sans Knowledge!
We used to play “chidiya ud”, “tota ud”, “bhains ud”………
Now we will play, “lehman furrr”, “bear stearns furrr”, “merill furrr”, ……..
Extraordinary times ahead!

The hope

More than 20 people have been killed in the Delhi bomb blasts. A chance of anything like this happening anyday anywhere can’t be completely avoided. It has now become a part of our lives. I dont think the police and the Intelligence have been idling. Many would brand it a failure on their part to [...]