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Is the Reliance Apple iPhone 5S Offer Worth it?

Please do not copy the entire content of the blog HI, I'm the original author of this article. Can you please not copy the entire contents of the article, please? A small excerpt (100 words) is fair use, but it is not right to copy the entire content! Thanks, Deepak

Reviewed General Tips on Mutual Funds

Introduction to Mutual Funds

Here's what Mutual funds(MFs) are, and how they work. Let's say you and I had some money, about 1 Lakh rupees each. And we have 8 other friends with the same idea. We all decide that we need to invest this in stocks, but we don't have the time or energy to do research, tracking, buying sellin...Read more

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Reviewed Sony Ericsson P900

Halfway to a PDA

I own a P900, bought in 2004 in the UK. Overall, it's a nice phone, and doubles up as a PDA (partly) as well. I added a 64 MB sony memory card (duo) to it (about Rs. 2000 then) for more memory storage. The display is a clear and bright LCD screen, that is very visible even on a sunny day. The...Read more

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Bottled TAHITIAN NONI®
Tahitian Noni Juice - Nutritional Drinks

http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=4799 shows they also got warned by the fda, and I recently read that they were banned from Finaland also! (http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/News/noni.html) This is just a quack juice.

Commented on kalimiri's review

Tiny Investment tips for 2006!
Tips on Unit Linked Insurance Plans

Good article. I must say though that in the last year ULIP returns have been disappointing in comparison with mutual funds! Also how do you know how many units you have? Do you get a monthly notice? I know they reduce mortality charges, fund management charges etc. directly from your units so eve...ry month the number of units you own changes. I'd suggest a term plan (pure risk plans) plus ELSS from mutual funds instead...Read More

Reviewed Tips on Unit Linked Insurance Plans

ULIPs : A good investment?

I was recently evaluating Unit Linked Insurance Plans(ULIPs) - the idea here is that you put in your money and it'grows' with time. So you also have life cover(i.e. your family gets money if you die) and money also grows at the same time. You get'units' like in mutual funds, and the value of the...Read more

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Reviewed World is Flat, The - Thomas Friedman

Flattened.

“The World is Flat” says Tom Friedman, three-time Pulitzer prize winner. Pretty apt for a book by a New York Times Columnist who was born in Minneapolis, studied in Oxford, and worked in Beirut and Jerusalem, and who got the title from a statement made by a CEO in Bangalore. In an in...Read more

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Reflections AFTER reading the book
Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

thanks all for reading in... kunchu: KREC is now NITK as you've said, but I hate the new name :) soojei: on@tcc is very sad. It's not expensive @ Rs. 95, but it's not well written. Plus there's some God factor in it and some virus factor, makes it look like Independence day (the movie). All hy...pe, no show.Read More

Reviewed Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

Reflections AFTER reading the book

I read Five Point Someone a while back. I'm an RECian myself, and it was very surprising to see the similarities and differences between life at KREC and IIT Delhi. A few interesting things to note: 1) We never ever needed to study four hours a day. I have never studied four hours a day, cons...Read more

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Reviewed Hung By My Family Tree - Ajit Saldanha

The refreshing reply to the saans bahu stories

I picked this book up a few days back at the Strand Book Stall, Bangalore, on the advise of a friend who'd been to the reading at the Leela. Three hundred and odd bucks down and I had what seemed like 700 pages bound in a paperback. When you've read as much as I have, which isn't saying much, yo...Read more

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Reviewed Palio - Petrol

Burn some rubber. Literally.

The hatch is back. With a bang! From the Italian workshop, the Palio is the swankiest hatchback in town. I bought a 1.6 GTX Anniversary Edition Palio a couple of months back. And boy am I satisfied! Here's what I like about this metal powerhouse. First, the engine. A 100 bhp, 1.6 litre DOHC e...Read more

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