Business Models

How a Loss Making Channel Became Sun TV’s Biggest Rival

Vijay TV, officially Star Vijay, is a Tamil entertainment channel run from Chennai. It is owned by JioStar, the joint ve...

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Insights

Why Indians Avoided Skoda for Years, and Why That is Finally Changing

Skoda has been selling cars in India for 25 years, and for most of that time, the brand built a reputation that scared a...

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Business Models

MTV Roadies Turns 23 This Year and now people are waiting for Roadies Rebirth

MTV Roadies premiered on August 15, 2003, and if you had told the show's original creators back then that it would still...

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Personalities

Abhijit Gupta aka AB Gupta : The man behind Pizza Bakery, Paris Panini, Smash Guys

Abhijit Gupta, the guy who keeps popping up in your YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook feeds never had the plan of opening...

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Business Models

How One Piece of Software Aladdin Helps BlackRock Make More Money Than Most Countries Earn in a Year

Most people have never heard of BlackRock, and if they have, it's usually as a vague mention in the news, something ab...

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Personalities

Who is Gopalaswamy Doraiswam Naidu?

Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, famously known as G.D. Naidu didn’t have a set of degrees.He was a primary school dropou...

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Personal Finance

Why Health Insurance Premiums Jump After Age 40

If you've ever renewed a health insurance policy somewhere around your 40th birthday and noticed the premium suddenly ...

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Business Models

Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop: Hype, Engineering and Real Secondary Value

Brands guard their image like it's the last thing standing between them and irrelevance. Then Audemars Piguet, a brand t...

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Personal Finance

Why Some Mutual Funds Charge More Than Others for the Same Thing

Open two mutual fund fact sheets side by side, both tracking the Nifty 50, both holding roughly the same fifty stocks ...

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Public Policies

UPI MDR 2026 street vendor exemption

In September 2026, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and the Central Government introduced a revised Mer...

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Insights

Why Stock Markets Ring a Bell Every Morning And What It Actually Means

If you've ever seen footage from a company's IPO day, someone in a suit on a balcony striking a large bell while a crowd...

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Insights

The Man Behind Ponzi Scheme Wasn't Even the First Person to Run One

Whenever a fraudulent investment scheme collapses and hits the news, someone calls it a Ponzi scheme almost automaticall...

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Insights

Why a Kitchen Vegetable Like Onions Has the Power to Shake Indian Government

Of all the things that could influence an election in India, an onion sounds like an unlikely candidate. Yet few vegetab...

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Business Models

McDonald's Isn't Really a Burger Company, It's One of the World's Biggest Landlords

Ask someone what business McDonald's is in and you'll get the obvious answer: burgers and fries. Fair enough, that's wha...

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Insights

Why Can't a Country Just Print More Money and Pay Off All Its Debt?

It sounds like an obvious fix once you think about it, and yet plenty of people never get a clear answer to why it doesn...

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Business Models

Why One Share of Warren Buffett's Company Costs More Than Most People Cars

Look up Berkshire Hathaway's stock price and you'll do a double take. A single Class A share trades for an amount that c...

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Insights

Why It's Called "Black Friday" (The Real Story Isn't What Most People Think)

Ask anyone why the big shopping day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, and you'll get the same answer almost eve...

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Insights

How RBI's Repo Rate Actually Changes Your EMI

Every few months, the news carries some version of the same headline. RBI holds repo rate steady, or RBI cuts repo rate ...

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