Expense Account, Mint In the market for a TV, I checked out all the vendors nearby. In the Sony and Samsung showrooms I got the Sony and Samsung TVs. In Croma, I got a variety of brands. On one TV it said Croma. That was the in-house brand which was cheaper than the other branded...
Expense Account, Mint My teenager is sick of me. Nothing new in the history of teenage issues with parents, but she has a unique problem. It is not the usual teenage gripe about how-dumb-can-you-be or the will-you-just-get-off-my-case grunt or even how-did-you-get-so-far-with-so-little-brain eye roll. No. It’s a totally new one that will put books on managing...
Expense Account, Mint This is a story that has been waiting to build scale, to add the four zeros it takes to gather the critical mass to declare something a scam, a bubble, trouble or just messy management. On Tuesday,Mint broke the story about the notional Rs 14,000 crore valuation deficit in three plans run by...
When I was studying about 20 years ago in the UK, I had two Taiwanese flatmates. We all traded some common must-know phrases over the year that I was there—the favourite being trying to learn “I Love You”. While they tied themselves in knots trying to say that in Hindi, I practised saying hello in...