Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Financial Literacy

Sahara's of the world continue to defraud people with aplomb. Collecting Rs 24,000 Cr ( twenty four thousand crore) is no small thing. They claim this amount has been collected from 30 million individual investors. Which means so many people have lost their hard earned money.
A strong  financial literacy program at the grass roots is required so that not only we create earning capacity but capability to save as well.
Being a Banker I feel extremely sad that I have till now not made any difference in this area despite feeling so strongly about it.

How Food Got So Big


An interesting article about how one product manager with a movie theater chain in Chicago is responsible for those humongous size portions now almost synonymous with America. The same seems to be soon catching up in India as well. The small bucket of popcorn just got bigger; it can feed three of me!!!!