Indag Rubber:Seems like a value buy
Here are the details of Indag Rubber:- The company is the the tyre retreading business.RoE is approx 32% and RoCE is 28.5%FY10 Sales is 111 cr and profit is 11.5 crMarket Cap is currently around 55 cr....
View ArticleThe New Market Bubble
Is there a market bubble going on now? Is the markets going higher or lower? Should I put my money in the markets now? Will the markets crash? These are some of the questions I keep getting from people...
View ArticleA few from my "Quote Hanger"
"You have a choice. You are either too busy dying, or you are too busy living." -- Shawshank RedemptionHe who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. -- Old sayingIt is the ability to...
View ArticleResolutions for 2011 and a review of last year's resolutions
I had made five resolutions last year. It's time to review how I have done with respect to those and take a fresh guard for 2011.YearResolutionResultRemarks2010Lose 5 kgs (or more) of weightI have...
View ArticleSleeping With The Enemy - Nokia and Microsoft
Nokia's recent announcement of chucking out their Symbian platform and bringing home the Windows Phone 7 is an interesting move by both Nokia and Microsoft. This is marriage of two partners who were...
View ArticleBengal Elections - The Winner's Curse
Elections are coming up in the state of West Bengal (not sure why we keep calling West Bengal, when there is no East Bengal in India, just Bengal would have made more sense), and as per popular media,...
View ArticleInfosys 3.0 - An outsider's perspective
First a disclosure: I work in an IT company and this post reflects my personal opinion and not that of my company.Infosys made the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated event in Indian corporate...
View ArticleBengal Votes For Change
The future of Bengal took a turn (for better or worse – the debate continues) when the votes were counted on May 13th, 2011. Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerji’s thirteen year old party along with its...
View ArticleJairam Ramesh rekindles the IIT-IIM debate
Jairam Ramesh, the environment minister and an ex-IIT graduate has rekindled the debate of the effectiveness of the quality of research and faculty at the IITs and IIMs in India. As expected, people...
View ArticleBook Review: Let's Do Lunch by Roger Wilson
I read this book sometime back as part of my journey of understanding food and how it affects the body and mind. In the last two years I have managed to lose about 10kgs of weight and in the process...
View ArticleGoals Execution - The Agile Way
I just completed listening to a brilliant audio book today from the Franklin Covey foundation on "Execution". Here is what I learnt.Execution is the most important aspect of strategy. Nothing works if...
View ArticleUS Trip for the NextGen Workshop
I was to travel to US on Friday night (early Saturday morning, Aug 13, 2011) for New York. From Friday morning, I was not feeling well. Had a slight fever, headache and a queasy feeling. Overall, a bad...
View ArticleLeadership crisis all around
Everywhere around I look, I see a crisis of leadership. In Bengal, India, in the world, everywhere. There are simply on one who can be a role model for the future generations. In Bengal, the state is...
View ArticleDream: How to control India's fiscal deficit?
Warren Buffet had two wonderful ideas that he has espoused over the years for fixing the fiscal deficit for US. Here let me outline two solutions that will go a long in solving this in India. But these...
View ArticleBlogs: New focus
I am planning to make some clear demarcations between my two blogs. ValueInvstr would continue to focus on investing. I would focus on equity value investing, economic viewpoints, behavioral finance,...
View ArticleBharat Ratna: Is the change in guidelines good?
Lately there has been a large hue and cry over the changing of the criteria for awarding the Bharat Ratna to "performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour". This is a modification from...
View ArticlePM Talks Tough!!!
In a discussion with the leaders from Indian industry, Indian Prime Minister let his displeasure known. "It is a little disappointing to hear negative comments from our business leadership or be told...
View ArticleOffice Productivity Booster: 3 Tips I use
Here are three tips that i have personally benefited a lot from at work.Read through your emails 2-3 times a dayStop checking your emails every few minutes. I use Lotus Notes for work emails and had...
View ArticleDo the Impossible
I came across this incredible presentation on doing the impossible. Each of the quotes is soul-inspiring.Do The IMPOSSIBLE
View ArticleDo something you love everyday
I keep a list of things that I like doing. At the beginning of every week, I make sure I put atleast one thing from that list into my calendar. Some of the things I have on that list are:reading...
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