Microfinance, India’s little Financial Crisis
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 02, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Type 2, Vol. II on 15. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
In the month of August 2010, India’s largest microfinance company, SKS Microfinance placed itself at the altar of capitalism by listing itself in the Indian stock exchanges. It was a delicate balance between its lofty socialistic goals of helping the poor by extending small loans and the profitability pressures of investors who looked at good [...]
Pursuit of Good Money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 12, Issues, Vol. I on 15. Jun, 2010 | 1 Comment
When the bankruptcy of Lehmann Brothers brought the US
The Pursuit of Good Money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 9, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 01. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Lately, a lot of corporations, big and small, have suddenly woken up to the idea of corporate social responsibility. It’s a fancy word and it is no wonder that the corporate world has embraced it with a lot of gusto
The Pursuit of Good Money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 8, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 15. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the seventies and eighties, it was not a great feeling to be portrayed as rich in movies. More often than not, it was the rich guy who was also the bad guy, who schemed hard to make the life of the hero
The pursuit of good money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 7, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 01. Apr, 2010 | 2 Comments
My brother often tells me that the stock markets are for gamblers. There is a lot of merit in that argument otherwise what would explain the sensex falling to one third of its value in less than a year from its dizzying January 2008 highs; and what could possibly explain it bouncing back and doubling [...]
The pursuit of good money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 6, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 15. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, a premier English news channel ran something known as a ‘Greenathon’. It’s a well orchestrated drama of a show with 24 hours of live television dedicated to the environment with celebrities, most of them film stars and some of them running in green colored designer shorts and dark cooling glasses, [...]
The pursuit of good money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 5, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 01. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sometime in the mid of the nineteenth century, the son of a cattle merchant from Bavaria migrated to the United States of America and settled in Alabama. He opened up a dry goods store and was joined by his brother a few years later. The firm named as ‘Lehmann Brothers’ started focusing on trading commodities, [...]
The pursuit of good money
Posted by Parashar Borkotoky in Issue 4, Issues, Sections, The Pursuit of Good Money, Vol. I on 15. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
If you are a believer in the broader idea of a global recession that enveloped the world in 2009, it can probably now be argued that we are near the end of the downturn and possibly at the cusp of a recovery, even if it is a supposedly mute one that is characterized by continuous [...]
