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Understanding the Indian Housing Loan

August 5, 2014 by Ashwin 2 Comments

Photo Credit: Flick Creative Commons by unlistedsightings
Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons by unlistedsightings

In India, the ultimate goal of every middle-class Indian is to own a home.  It may be a villa in the remote outskirts of a city or a narrow apartment in the city center, the goal is to own one.

Banks as usual understand this temptation and do their best to offer home loans at “attractive” rates.  At the time of availing a loan, not everyone (including me) understand the long term implication of a housing loan with floating interest rates.  Read on to get some some details. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: home loan, housing loan, india, personal finance, property

Food for thought

July 31, 2014 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

We take our food for granted.  I don’t remember the last time when I wasn’t sure where my next food will come from.

But I want to take you away from the ideal and near-perfect world of ours, to some shocking realities. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Social Tagged With: africa, c.a.r, donate, food, food crisis, sudan, un, wfp

Safeguarding your child from Sexual abuse

July 25, 2014 by Ashwin 4 Comments

Child look.  Photo credit - Flickr Creative Commons by  boasorteecareca
Child look. Photo credit – Flickr Creative Commons by boasorteecareca

I never thought I would want to write such a blog post.  But I could not constrain myself after the recent (shameful) incident in Bengaluru.  This involved the sexual abuse of a 6-year old kid, inside the school premises.  Read more here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: child abuse, parenting, rape, sexual abuse

Is Minimalist a Saint?

January 8, 2014 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Saint

Well, not exactly but more or less…  Jokes apart, Minimalism is a nice and simple way to live life to the fullest.
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Filed Under: Minimalism Tagged With: minimal life, minimalism, minimalist, simple life, simplicity

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