After the vow, Shantanu and Satyavati’s marriage culminated, and as we know, they had two sons, Chitrangada and Vichitravirya. Chitrangada was a fierce warrior and extremely proud of it, which turned out to be the reason for his early death. As the name of the brave king Chitranganda spread far and wide, it turned out … Read more
Right from creation starting with Brahma, the first king in the Sun dynasty was Vivasvin and subsequently there was a lunar branch to it in which Bharat was the most successful emperor. In that dynasty, which is the earliest descendent of the Kurus, was a king named Mahabheesha. Mahabheesha was a very righteous king and … Read more
The Mahabharata is the longest epic in the world consisting of 110,000 verses that are said to be 7 to 8 times the size of the next two longest, namely the Iliad and the Odyssey. In Vedic scriptures, it is among the two epics called Itihasas, the other being the Ramayana with around 24,000 verses. … Read more
“Everything material is changing all the time and is temporary, so for lasting happiness, we should change our focus from what is temporary to what is eternal” said our broker friend Jigneshbhai as we met for our weekend coffee yesterday. Swami and I were stumped seeing him in such a philosophical, almost spiritual mood, specially … Read more
“Artificial Intelligence is going to completely change investing” said Swami excitedly as we met for our coffee. Jigneshbhai did not react, and continued sipping his black coffee, as usual. Swami was not the one to be discouraged by that, at least immediately. So he continued with even more enthusiasm. “Machines will be reading through stock … Read more
“Where have you been?” asked my friend Swami to Jigneshbhai, as we met for our weekend coffee after a really, really long time. Indeed when I checked, it was over a year since we had last met, and some of our coffee house friends had also started asking me why we had stopped meeting. “I … Read more
Common Sense Investing: Sharing an excellent set of simple videos (less than 60 minutes) by Rick Van Ness. All that an average individual investor needs to know and follow. This is what the site http://www.financinglife.org/ says about these videos: “These short videos teach basic financial concepts to make it more likely that you’ll achieve common life … Read more
“Many years back there used to be an ad for some detergent remember where the lady of the house boomed with pride ‘ढूंढते रह जाओगे’ when her husband found no stains on his shirt. Do you remember that?” asked Jigneshbhai while sipping his coffee last weekend. Swami and I met our broker friend Jigneshbhai had … Read more
..and again!! That’s the title of a memo sent by the famous investor Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital to his clients recently. And it refers to how he is happiest writing when bull markets start going far, risk aversion disappears and there’s money all around inflating potential bubbles. It is quite a long memo listing … Read more