The Bazaar Guru

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…

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…