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Get a Copy, Now Available: “The Good, The Bad and The Silly”: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 22, 2025April 26, 2020 by Ranjit Kulkarni

Hello, My new fiction novel “The Good, The Bad and The Silly” featuring Jigneshbhai and Swami is now available. You can get a personal copy of the book at the following links: PDF: https://ranjitkulkarni.com/product/thegood-thebad-and-thesilly/ Kindle: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08777W31Z Paperback (after lockdown): https://store.pothi.com/book/ranjit-kulkarni-good-bad-and-silly Get Ready for Jigneshbhai and SwamiWhen an innocent health check-up report seen by Raji Periamma leads to Swami … Read more

Call for Early Readers: The Good, The Bad and The Silly: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 22, 2025April 18, 2020 by Ranjit Kulkarni

What an experience the past 30 days have been! I hope this note finds you well, mentally, physically, emotionally. I pray you are as well as you can be, with a mix that is more in favour of happiness and joy than their opposites. For me, the past month has been productive as I finished … Read more

Deja comes: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 22, 2025February 17, 2020 by Ranjit Kulkarni

It was like every other weekend coffee conversation. But it was not. Swami and Jigneshbhai were having their usual question answer session. The questions weren’t ending and the answers weren’t starting. I don’t want to get into the details of the discussion because they are not relevant today. The wealthy old man was sitting on … Read more

Swami Protests: Jigneshbhai and Swami

February 5, 2025January 16, 2020 by Ranjit Kulkarni

Swami decided to join a protest last weekend. He told me and Jigneshbhai that we are going to have coffee at a protest. But a doubt cropped up. “Is coffee allowed at a protest? Who’s going to get it for us?” Jigneshbhai and I had no idea. We had never been to any protest. “Let … Read more

What will not change?: Jigneshbhai and Swami

February 11, 2025March 11, 2019 by Ranjit Kulkarni

“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

Four Legs and a टेढ़ी Tail: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 27, 2025February 28, 2019 by Ranjit Kulkarni

“Abraham Lincoln once posed the question: ‘If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have?’ and then answered his own query: ‘Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,’” Buffett writes. Our broker friend Jigneshbhai was reading from Warren Buffett’s latest annual letter to his shareholders. He … Read more

Nonstop Nonsense: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 27, 2025February 19, 2019 by Ranjit Kulkarni

“Charlie Chaplin once said ‘I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician’” said Jigneshbhai, my broker friend as we met for our weekend coffee. He was musing over the happenings of the past few days apparently. “But … Read more

Of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Stupidity and a Higher Wisdom: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 27, 2025February 8, 2019 by Ranjit Kulkarni

“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?: Jigneshbhai and Swami

January 27, 2025February 2, 2019 by Ranjit Kulkarni

“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

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