Category: General

Special ossasion spending

Dassera and Diwali come once a year and so do birthdays and anniversaries . During dassera and diwali, there is a tradition to buy gold. Do you follow the same tradition here? I know of some friends, who do. Or are you like me 🙂 who doesn’t follow these? With …

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Do we need to worry ?

Just read this article – http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/56994/Top-Economist-Americans-Should-Worry-About-Bank-Deposits-if-Congress-Doesn’t-Act?tickers=LEH,MER,BAC,AIG,WM,%5EDJI,%5EGSPC . I keep hearing that the money in banks is insured upto 100,000$. But as the article mentions, how can the FDIC insure $1 trillion in assets when it has only about $50 billion ?

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Caveat emptor, “let thee buyer beware”

This weekend we got into an interesting discussion about various payment plans on purchase of furniture,etc. One of the purchase plans we often come across is ‘You sleep free on the mattress for the first year’-plans where buyer does not pay anything for the first ‘x’ period and then makes …

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Movies with 10 rating

Just wondering which are the movies that you would rate as 10 ??? I have seen people giving couple of 9’s like recently Sandip rated Rock On as 9. I guess for me movies like Johnny Gaddar, Bheja Fry, Khosla ka Gosla were complete entertainment and that’s what i would …

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Can we eat Paneer in Pajusan?

I was asked this question recently. My instant answer was – No. But am not sure about reasoning for why not? As far as I remember, we have not used paneer during pajusan. I am thinking may be due to mirco organism process used to split paneer from milk.

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