India's gambling industry

Derivatives trading is ruining a larger and larger mass of people. The time to treat it as nothing but gambling is right now.

The cost of growing

Growth is only good when it pays its own way

Cap the Investor, Not the Industry

A per-person limit on the fund route would steady the rupee better than freezing the whole industry

Your fund lost money. That doesn't make it a bad fund.

September and October have left most portfolios in the red. That number says more about when you invested than about the fund you chose.

The right question

After 24 years, readers' worries have changed, but the real challenge is still knowing which questions to ask

Buying gold on Dhanteras is not investing

Honour the ritual, but count Dhanteras jewellery as spending. Gold you hold as insurance needs a form you can sell cheaply, and a necklace is not that form.