Like a lot of beginners, I picked up a few books on investing in the stock market before I even invested a rupee. My go to book for value investing was the simple to understand — “Value Investing and Behavioral Finance: Insights into the Indian Stock Market Realities” By Parag…

Take any bus along the bustling IT corridor of Bangalore on a working day and you are bound to hear colleagues cribbing about how they are unable to spend any money till the elusive pay day. This is increasingly getting worse with the advent of “interest-free” EMIs and increasing rents…