My Rich Friends Want Epic Weekends, I Want to Pay Rent
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My Rich Friends Want Epic Weekends, I Want to Pay Rent

People like me sweat the small stuff, while my investment banker friends worry about how to make an epic weekend. Your Saturday-Sundays then become the equivalent of a Bhansali film. You look forward to having a great time but end up feeling massively ripped off and questioning your life choices.
Can We Escape Another Financial Meltdown?
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Can We Escape Another Financial Meltdown?

Since the great crash of 2008, not much has changed. Economies around the world – in order to avoid collapse – have played every available trick in the book to convince consumers that the future was rosy. This played well until the future arrived and things seemed just the same.
Is Nirmala Sitharaman the MS Dhoni of Finance Ministers?
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Is Nirmala Sitharaman the MS Dhoni of Finance Ministers?

As the buzz around the slowdown in the economy grew louder, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took some small steps – support for the auto sector, a fine-tuning of FDI, and liquidity support for banks. And then, like MS Dhoni in the final over of a run chase, she sent the ball thundering out of the stadium with her decision to reduce the corporate tax rate.
If Anthony Bourdain’s Life Was Not Perfect How Can Ours Ever Be?
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If Anthony Bourdain’s Life Was Not Perfect How Can Ours Ever Be?

What could have made Anthony Bourdain, sitting in a luxury hotel, in the middle of shooting a much-loved show, feel so hollow that he had to kill himself? For 99.99 per cent of humanity, who will never rent a countryside villa, the question that rankles is, is it going to be worth it, when we get there?
Do We Need Wallets in the Age of Smartphones?
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Do We Need Wallets in the Age of Smartphones?

It took just one day of me leaving my wallet at home to realise how unimportant it was. With the smartphone’s infinite capacity to get things done and the rise of the cashless economy, will wallets soon join the MP3 player and the torch as yet another item slain by the mobile phone?