I’m a 4th-generation stockbroker
My family ran a brokerage in Calcutta. I shut it down in my twenties — not because it was losing money, but because I couldn’t run it the way it should be run.
No account opening fees at Zerodha — for everyone
Zerodha removed account opening fees for all resident Indians.
What Planting 1,200 Banana Trees Taught Me About Long-Term Investing
A Decision That Looked Eccentric to Everyone Around Me In 2019, I planted 1,200 banana trees on land my family owns. I live in a city, work in financial services, and spend most of my time thinking about markets and products. And yet, here I was, walking muddy rows of freshly turned earth, overseeing the […]
Building a Low-Cost Air Cooler — and What Jugaad Engineering Teaches You About Frugality
The Summer, the Problem, and the Decision Not to Buy In the summer of 2022, the space I needed to cool was awkward, not quite a full room, not a small corner. The commercial air coolers that would work were either too big, too ugly, too expensive, or all three. And somewhere in the irritation […]
Books & Films
Books JahangirnamaJahangir Bhagavad GitaVyasa Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky The ProphetKhalil Gibran The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald Poetry La Belle Dame sans MerciJohn Keats BluebirdCharles Bukowski If—Rudyard Kipling Who Can Live Without HopeNikolai Nekrasov Films The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013 Into the Wild2007 About Time2013 Cloud Atlas2012 The Fountain2006 Hector and […]
Music I Love
Classical & World Johann Sebastian Bach Yehudi Menuhin Hariprasad Chaurasia Rock & Alternative Arctic Monkeys The Beatles Coldplay David Bowie David Byrne Eagles Eddie Vedder Elbow Green Day Jethro Tull Kings of Leon Kodaline Linkin Park Morrissey Mumford & Sons Nick Cave Nirvana Porcupine Tree R.E.M. Radiohead Sigur Rós Snow Patrol System of a Down […]
Countdown to age x
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Countdown
The average life expectancy for a man in India is 67. Even with a more optimistic target of 75, time is finite. This page is a reminder to stick to deadlines — mine. —Weeks —Days —Hours —Mins —Secs Jan 2024May 2069 · age 75 We do not have forever. This is not meant to be […]
Chilling
On building air coolers.