Jeene Ke Failsafe

This Tagore essay on the cult of the nation could have been written in 2016 (and not 99 years ago)!! "When this idea of the Nation tries to pass off the cult of collective selfishness as a moral duty, it attacks the very vitals of humanity." टैगोर की "राष्ट्र का चरमपंथ" पर करी गयी यह टिपण्णी शायद 2016 में लिखी गयी हो, न की 99 वर्ष पूर्व!! "जब राष्ट्र का विचार सामूहिक स्वार्थ के अनुयायियों द्वारा एक नैतिक ज़िम्मेदारी की तरह  प्रचारित हो, तब वह मानवता की जड़ों पर सीधा हमला होता है" राष्ट्र का विचार और राष्ट्रीयता आज लोगों के लिए पूर्ण-कालिक व्यवसाय बन गया है। और यही विचार और उससे उत्पन्न भेड़चाल जैसे राष्ट्रवादियों का पंथ इन सबके लिए भी सबसे बड़ा ख़तरा बन के उभर रहा है , क्योंकि इसमें इनको शुरूआती तौर पे मिली अकल्पनीय सफलता अब इनके आते चढ़ के बोल रही है और इनको दिनोंदिन और अधीर बना रही है की यह ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा तथाकथित उच्च आदर्शों (Higher Ideals) पर अपना आधिपत्य जमा सकें। जैसे जैसे इनको मिलने वाली सफलताएँ बड़ी होती जा रही हैं, उसी अनुपात में हितों-का...

Hello young friends. the title of this post may seem out of sync with your realities and current priorities, but let me have the opportunity to prove otherwise. Money, as we know, turns the keys and moves the levers - it is important and a necessary tool to get many things that give us pride, joy, comfort and upgrades in life. Money helps us to get education, get best medical attention when we fall sick, enables us to throw parties and have pizzas and watch movies with family and friends. So it is central to almost everything we do. And you know what, it is the prime reason that most of you have chosen a professional course over the more traditional ones. So, lets first make up our minds that it is a necessary thing to have. Like it is famously said that         "it is better to suffer with lots of cash in hand than without it." At least we get to choose our many of the sufferings!!! :) I am not a very successful person when it comes to measu...

On the Couch, Jan-2016 Notes on Memo by Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management By Mudit Khetan, Jaipur ------------------- This is only a humble first attempt to distill the knowledge of the greats with MY OWN perspective. It's not a commentary on the Memo or the great Marks, BUT ON HOW I TRY TO [OR AM LEARNING] to think and understand things. The phrases/sentences in [] are my own. Many sentences are incomplete and are taken from a bigger one to drive home the larger point. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome. ------------------ NOTES [Markets] On the Couch, Jan-2016 - [Understanding the psychology of the markets as a shrink] Professor Richard Thaler of Univ. of Chicago is a leading expert on behavioral-economics and decision-making. He opens his new book 'Misbehaving', with Vilfredo Pareto's aasertion taht "the foundation of political economy and, in genera, of every social science is, evidently psychology." I'd apply that equa...