The Bazaar Guru

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…

You walk past a jewellery shop and the gold rate board makes you stop. Twenty four karat gold is sitting near an all-time high this month. You think about buying some, then you remember your cousin once said "just buy a bond, it's tax-free,&q…

You open your trading app one morning and see a headline: "Zepto files papers, may list below its last private valuation." That sounds strange. The company just doubled its revenue in a year. Why would it be worth less? If that question ma…

Every time your SIP debits money from your bank account, it usually lands with a fund house you barely think about by name. If you invest through SBI Mutual Fund, that fund house is a company called SBI Funds Management. This week, that company itself…

You've probably heard of Byju's. Maybe as India's biggest online-learning success story. Or maybe as a company that fell apart in the news. If you're not sure how both of those things can be true, you're exactly who we call a "…