Reflections

Don’t ThinkHard about ThinkSoft Global Services’s IPO at Rs 120-130…Ignore it

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Thinksoft Global Services,a Chennai based financial software testing service  is seducing you with a bookbuilding IPO in the band of Rs 120-Rs 130….Issue opens today and closes two days hence on Thursday,September 24,2009 Don’t ThinkHard on ThinkSoft !…ignore the Issue…this issue clearly is an exit route for an existing shareholder The IPO is for 36.46 lakh shares…of which just […]

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Pleasantly uncanny meeting up this past fortnight, and after over 20 years, with old mates from school,college and the building !

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It’s really been an uncanny two weeks…pleasantly so, as we met up with several old mates from our school,college and building in Mumbai Uncanny because we don’t meet for decades, as all had spread their wings in India and overseas and have moved up in personal and proffessional life….have families…..and then all of a sudden inside

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Switch from Chanda to Shikha ! ? from ICICI Bank to Axis Bank !?

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Now this is an intriguing switch to consider ! From Chanda to Shikha ? Just this morning I was conversing with an ex commercial editor of a Newspaper….we were discussing how the Media today is corrupt and deliberately mislead investors with guided opinions by experts and planted stories….in fact he was bold enough to even accuse a

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Pip-avoid Pipavav Shipyard IPO

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Yes,I know the IPO of Pipavav Shipyard Ltd  is oversubscribed and it closes today…..but pip-avoid Pipavav Shipyard The IPO Price band of Rs 55-Rs 60 for an Equity Share of Face Value of Rs 10 is obscene in the first place and this 11 year old (an adult in context of Corporate Existence !) child is

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New Direct Taxes Code and a Stock Market Selling off….What’s the Connection ?

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Right from August 12,2009 when our FM,Pranab Mukherjee released the New Direct Taxes Code for Discussion,there has been developing apprehension on increased taxation on Capital Gains I’ve been warning Clients about the  Market Selling off towards 2011 as Investors book Gains,both short and long term, to take advantage of lower tax rate and tax exemption respectively……and today

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Remembering My Parents on the recent deaths of Cricket Crazy,Rajsingh Dungarpur and ‘Dirty Dancing’ Star,Patrick Swayze

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Rajsingh Dungarpur passed away a few days ago…Cricket and Rajbhai were synonymous…He played for Rajasthan State  decades ago and then assumed pivitol administrative roles in our Country’s Cricket Structure…The Cricket Club of India,Mumbai (CCI)  and Rajbhai were one soul….Yet,in the past year he was sen often in solitary bliss,gazing out soulfully at the Golf Greens while enjoying a

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