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Smallcase Review: Pros and Cons, Charges, Risks and Top Portfolios

On June 21, 2021 By Shantanu Dhar In Lifestyle

Reading Time: 10 minutes When it comes to investing, I have been a late bloomer. I started my investing journey in my 30s (and that’s quite late). Throughout my 7-8 years of investing, I’ve been hesitant of investing directly in stocks and hence have stuck to the traditional approach of sticking to mutual funds. This was until 2020 post pandemic, when I was reviewing my investment strategy and exploring various options. While browsing YouTube, I serendipitously came across Smallcase. Post COVID19 onset, retail investors had a lot of disposable income as general consumption dropped. This is evident from the fact that new Demat accounts …

16 Amazing Games To Play On Zoom With Students – Happy Days, Teachers!

On May 19, 2021 By Pratistha In Lifestyle

Reading Time: 7 minutes Hola teachers! You don’t have to stress about the lack of engagement in your Zoom classes anymore. Don’t shy away from planning fun game sessions with your students and get to know them better. Online games are a great way to connect with your students in a meaningful and better way. Here are 16 games you can play with your students on Zoom to add more energy to your online classes : 1. Look Change This is a super fun game to play with your students where you ask one of them to go and do a little change in …

How to Stay Productive Amidst the Deadly COVID-19 Second Wave

On April 24, 2021 By Arijit Ganguly In Opinion

Reading Time: 4 minutes India is about to reach half a million reported COVID19 cases a day. Your Whatsapp is beeping every minute. Every single group – work, friends, hobbies – is full of SOS messages. There’s no oxygen, there are no beds, there are no medicines. Most likely there are people in your family/ extended family, close friends who are down with Covid19 (If you/ immediate family have been infected, you can skip reading this article for now. Ensure you have consulted a doctor and are following the prescribed medication/ next steps) It’s a working day. How do you focus and stay productive …

Temporary street shop in Kolkata, India during lockdown

COVID-19: I Think We Fucked Up

On May 30, 2020 By Seun In Opinion

Reading Time: 6 minutes I think we fucked up. But also got lucky. We will also have tremendous collateral damage. Am talking about India’s COVID-19 response and below are my non-data based inferences and a retrospective view of the last 3 months. Let’s start with why India entered a lockdown We are unarguably the world’s largest third world country. Some parts may look like the first world and even have those benefits, but never be fooled. We aren’t even second world. And even the most deluded of governments cannot make the mistake of thinking so. Thankfully, ours didn’t. The lockdowns were needed and have done …

More Than Two-Thirds of COVID19 Deaths in India From 10 Most Populated Cities – Analysis

On May 10, 2020 By Arijit Ganguly In Data

Reading Time: 6 minutes The population share of the ten most populated cities in India is only 5% of the total population but two-thirds of Covid19 deaths in India are being reported from these 10 cities. This skew was expected, however, I wanted to do this analysis and see if any patterns can be found. For those of you who are short on time, I have highlighted the key points so you can just scroll through quickly. You are more than welcome to read further on how I came up with these and some more data and graphs to back these up. Please note …

4 Ways To Make the Most of the COVID-19 Lockdown

On April 29, 2020 By Arijit Ganguly In Lifestyle

Reading Time: 6 minutes If your lifestyle and work schedule is like mine, this Covid-19 lockdown must be giving you at least 2 hours of extra time every day (less travel!). If your job has been impacted due to the pandemic, then that extra time will be higher. Some people are making the best use of this time – learning, resting, retrospecting, creating. Watching the number of infected people 5 times a day on 3 news and 4 social media channels won’t add any value. This is the time to get healthy, up your game with new skills and declutter your life. Here is …