The Bazaar Guru

You open your IPO app to apply for a hot new listing. But a day before you even got the chance, news broke that a dozen big mutual funds and insurance companies had already bought in at a fixed price. The IPO hasn't even opened yet, and somehow, i…

You see a headline: "MS Dhoni's net worth crosses ₹1,000 crore." Then you see another headline calling it ₹1,200 crore. A third site says ₹800 crore. All three were published this year. If that made you wonder which number is actually …

You read that BCCI, India's cricket board, is worth about $2.25 billion. Richer than several IPL franchises put together. Then you read that it is registered as a non-profit, the same category as a charity trust. Then you read that it just set a…

You drop a ₹10 coin into a temple hundi, fold your hands, and walk on. You never think about that coin again. But somewhere behind the scenes, someone is thinking about it very carefully. Multiply your ₹10 by tens of millions of pilgrims a year, and…

You are in a WhatsApp group with twenty other people who applied for the same IPO. Every hour, someone posts a screenshot: "GMP ₹41" or "GMP ₹0," like it is a live cricket score. Nobody in the group has actually met the person quot…