How one Mysuru family brought their finances together

If you had met Vighnesh five years ago at the Mysuru Railway Station, bags in hand, headed to Bangalore for his first job, you’d have seen a boy full of ambition, not yet the man he is today. Fresh out of an elite B-school and freshly recruited by a fintech firm, Vighnesh had big dreams. And as every self-respecting Mysorean knows, if you're headed to Bangalore, you don’t just go for the skyline — you go for the lifestyle. New job, new apartment, new SIPs. But back home, money was still an affair of whispers. His father, a retired bank manager, had his savings spread across a long list of fixed deposits at various public sector banks. His mother, a retired college lecturer, had her PPF, a couple of insurance policies from LIC, and an old mutual fund she didn’t quite remember investing in. His younger sister, Prerana, was a final-year law student — still dependent, but curious about stocks and already dabbling in digital gold. Vighnesh always knew his family wasn’t careless with money. If anything, they were cautious to a fault. But every time he visited Mysuru for the weekend, he found the same pattern: money was scattered across documents, passbooks, insurance folders, and a few half-forgotten emails. Everyone was investing, but no one knew the full picture. The evening that changed everything It was a quiet Sunday evening in his Indiranagar apartment. The kind that demands an oat milk latte and some jazz. Vighnesh was just finishing his monthly portfolio review when

This article was originally published on June 06, 2025.