Man, Woman & Finance

Recently, I came across an article in one of the Gujarati newspapers that talked about the help and free advice provided by a CA in Pune. Generally, people do not like free advice but the advice provided by this person has helped survive around 500 hundred families who lost their bread-earner due to Covid or any other illness or accidents.  

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On Doing Something

When I was in school, we had an essay titled ‘On Doing Nothing’ by J. B. Priestley. The essay discusses the author’s views on idleness : fruitful idleness. Maybe, at that time, I was too young to understand the satirical content and tone of the author. But today, when I reread the essay, I realized the truth Priestley wanted to convey in his essay about not doing anything at some point in our life. 

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Touch wood

We often say ‘touch wood’ when good things happen to us. But do we all know the origin of this word?

I didn’t know either until I thought of writing this blog. Ya, Google baba has answers to all our queries.

Here’s a brief insight into the origin of the word. (I am sure you do have 3 minutes more to read this short interesting piece of information.)

So, what about it? Why am I giving you unnecessary gyan? (Thinking out loud, hm.)

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