Is the Stock Market Overvalued?
There are various metrics to measure the value of a stock market. The most common or popular is Earning per share, or EPS, for short. That one metric gives...
Education, Economics and Happiness
The education in India is too straitjacketed to produce a progressive, happy society. It is not going to produce enough innovative people, or ideas, to really take on the...
Optimism, Pessimism, Realism: The Dynamics of a Loan
Delhi-based Tarun tells us about the loans and its various ramifications, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. “Be positive.” That’s a refrain we often hear in motivational...
Fifty Shades of Black Money
Black money is something earned legally, but which has escaped the taxes. Illegal money is something, which is a result of illegal activities. No question of taxes arises here....
An Open Letter to the Beloved Prime Minister of India
As a new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is being elected, Prof. Bhaskar congratulated the Prime Minister for his huge victory in the state. In an Open Letter, he...
Of Cabbages and Cobblers: How Pricing Costs the People?
The question is how the dispossession of the poor is understood? It is not immediately understood by the poor and the non-poor either ignores it as an externality or...