Being from a finance background, I made it a point to invest in SIPs early on. Over the years, while the investment amount has increased steadily, the number of funds being invested in has remained more or less constant. Hence, I need […]
The introduction of standard deduction in FY2019 lieu of transport allowance and medical reimbursement is unanimously portrayed as being beneficial to employees, at least by HR personnel. To a large extent that is true, even though the mention of the additional 1% […]
Lately, I have been in to Qlik Sense and was looking to create a single page dashboard for publicly available information. The most logical place to head to was Kaggle and keeping in line with my previous post concerning US-India, I decided […]
Raghuram Rajan has been featuring a lot in the media recently in promotion of his book ‘I Do What I Do’. While I am yet to read it, there has been no escaping it as select excerpts and anecdotes have been making […]
There was a time when piracy was considered to be a necessity. The unavailability of the software locally along with dollar pricing made it impossible for anyone to even contemplate purchasing the software. However, things have changed a lot since then. Local […]
While the US President has managed to hog all the limelight just about everyday in office, the Indian President was ushered in a more laid-back affair in the past month which is just as well considering the fact that is largely a […]
I had a recent request from a colleague who wanted to arrange a bunch of dates in to fiscal quarters. So, I went about creating an Excel workbook that would implement the same with the freedom of selecting the starting month of […]
The first anniversary of this website is still a week away and this happens to be the 81st post, but it was too good an opportunity to pass in terms of word play. I am pretty sure that Jules Verne has stopped […]
Hello 2017! The first full weekend of 2017 gives me an opportunity to put my thoughts to words once again. Considering that security and privacy were a highlight in 2016, I thought it best to start 2017 with a review of my […]
My opinion of Formula 1’s 2016 season remains pretty much the same 9 months later and has in fact been reinforced by the on-track action. 2016 has again been a two-horse race or rather “two jockeys on one horse” race as the […]