Urban transport is changing fast. We are moving from multi-car homes to single car homes, with Uber and Ola replacing the headache of parking, insurance and maintenance.
Expense Account, Mint One of the nicest calls I answered on my weekly TV show recently was from a 20-something kid from the US who wanted to plan out her parent’s finances. Mum had retired, dad was going to soon and daughter wanted the best advice for her parents on cracking their retirement nest egg....
Expense Account, Mint There is a problem in being good. Or as Gurcharan Das asks in his book, The Difficulty of Being Good, On the Subtle Art of Dharma—“why be good?” The first time I questioned this basic premise that has been drilled into most “service class” people as we call ourselves was many years ago...
Expense Account, Mint So you read the headlines on Tuesday about the hike in the home loan rates and are wondering what to do: prepay that home loan or let it run on and allow investments to continue. I call it the classic “prepay or invest” fork in the road that the urban mass affluent...
Expense Account, Mint Will middle Indian kids lose their edge as newly wealthy parents rush to remove all roadblocks? The neighbourhood kid comes home to borrow a DVD. He’s home in transit. From Hyderabad, where he worked for the past two years, on his way overseas to study some more. He was bored of his...