The Bazaar Guru

You read that the Golden Temple in Amritsar feeds 100,000 people a day, every single day, for free. Then you wonder, just for a second, who is paying for all that rice and ghee. There is no entry ticket. No sponsor logo anywhere. No government cheque …

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 act…

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…

One friend tells you FIIs are dumping Indian stocks and the market is doomed. Another friend looks at the exact same day's numbers and says DIIs are buying heavily, so there is nothing to worry about. Both of them are reading the same FII and DI…

It's July. Your Form 16 has landed in your inbox, and the income tax portal is finally working properly. You feel like you're one login away from being done for the year. But here's something worth knowing: most people who get a tax no…