Mint, Hindustan Times and NDTV, bring you a personal finance show, Let’s Talk Money. The weekly call-in show, anchored by Monika Halan, editor, Mint Money, and Manisha Natarajan, editor and senior anchor, special programmes, NDTV, aims to answer viewers’ questions about money-related issues. Here are edited excerpts from the show that aired over the weekend on NDTV Profit and NDTV 24x7.
I have not met an Indian yet who doesn’t remember the Aamir Khan and Aishwarya Rai Pepsi ad, or for that matter couldn't sing the words — all of them — to the Hamara Bajaj ad. As a child you may have loved the ad, then as you grew older found it annoying, and finally today, view it with nostalgia. It’s become a part of the culture.
Sometimes, I wonder what Apple CEO Steve Jobs would be without the flash memory. N Madhavan
I have never met Sudeshna. She came into my compass late last year at our IIM Calcutta silver jubilee reunion.
It's been a few months now that reports of NRI luminary Rajat Gupta being an accomplice of disgraced hedge fund manager R Rajaratnam first appeared. As the quality of the news has evolved from rumours to impending persecution, disbelief has given way to horror.
Dhirendra Kumar writes.
To a lot of people, the long-awaited visit of Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, to India was a bit of an anti-climax. He didn’t quite fit the bill for what we in India think a ‘dignitary’ should behave like.
Give direct cash to the poor. Not only will this sidestep corruption but it’s also politically viable. E Somanathan writes.
The beauty of technology is that it removes man made barriers between the rich and the poor, the good the bad, and all the other splits of humans and the society. Puneet Mehrotra writes.
Human life is precious and like all human follies only after it gone do we realize its value. Technology wise humans have never had it better, we have everything that makes living so easy, literally a breeze, writes Puneet Mehrotra.
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard from investors is that they were not able to make a gain when the IPO they invested in opened on the stock exchange.
A financial plan is a long-term roadmap of effective management of finances available to achieve an individual’s financial goals and independence. However, the Union Budget mandates a review of our plans in the light of changes in taxation of various investments. Ranjeet S Mudholkar writes.
When India’s GDP first touched the $1-trillion mark in November 2007, it left most analysts surprised. The India story then was just about beginning to gather momentum. Lost in the deluge of the credit crisis, perhaps, the event passed us by.
Here goes my interview with a newspaper editor after the Union budget. Manas Chakravarty writes.
With multiple telcos per circle, bleeding tariffs and newer weapons of marketing, the mobile telecom battleground is at its most challenging. The ARPU margins from voice have decreased exponentially. There has been a radical shift of power from the hands of telcos to that of customers. MA Madhusudan writes.
Last week, there was an advertisement placed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) in newspapers. The ad had an illustration of what looked like the comic character Superman holding up a sign that said ‘BEWARE!!’.