Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: money matters

  • Tad Taxing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5dJVvimajA It’s that time of the year when taxes have to paid. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate…

  • Shopping-Wise

    Yup, I am talking economy of emotions, finance, and a feeling of empowerment. I am just recuperating from listening to a whining session of how things are expensive, how her then separated now deceased husband has left her stranded, honestly I find it difficult to be considerate here, if your bank balance is 1000/- you…

  • An Instrument Of Change.

    When my daughter was 10yrs old, she read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” I was amused wondering what a 10yr.old would understand. But she told me something very profound. “Amma, wealth is neutral and only an instrument of change.” I was a little confused, she was very clear, “Amma, money is neither good nor bad, it…

  • About Kotak Jifi and Khyati.

    Kotak jifi is here…. Curious, “World’s first socially powered bank” curriouser… if I may quote Carroll Lewis. Socially powered bank somehow created an image of the famous direct marketing paradigm, I started having visions of my best friend turning up at my door step and showing me the plan for the “product.” I thought let…

  • worship of lakshmi

    worship of lakshmi some musing from the vishnu purana, about the worship of Lakshmi

  • Backing Sumitra Kamble.

    Sumitra Kamble–http://milaap.org/fund/sumitra-kamble-and-group/2037 Sumitra Kamble is a resident of Ghataprabha in Belgaum district like other former Devadasi women, unschooled; illiterate she sustains her family by raising buffaloes. This makes ends meet, sending her two children to school, but that is a challenge in itself. Sometimes she gets anxious for any new challenge would be a financial…