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Bombay Stock Exchange trades in Equity, derivatives & debt.   The BSE SENSEX (BSE 30 index) is a index composed of thirty scrips, with ...

Derivatives are financial contracts. They derive their value from an underlying stuff. This stuff can be anything - for example it can be an...

Liquidity can be checked with a few more ratios : Quick ratio / Acid test ratio takes only the most liquid current assets ( cash + A/c recei...

Was sp impressed by Buffet's philosophy of investing, have started reading about Balance sheets and investing principles. Will post a fe...

Dinakaran, the Tamil daily is carrying an article on the One page cookbooks tomo and I've made the book available for free download in m...

I used to think Baking soda and Baking Powder were one and the same - how wrong ! Baking soda is an alkali. When mixed with an acid ( Butte...

For the past few days, I've spent most of my time in my campervan. I've slowly beginning to accept it as a living space, instead of ...

Did a chart for Ravi's daughter . Found some new interesting stuff too..

Learnt another time saving technique yesterday. To make easy hard boiled eggs you just need to pressure cook for 1 whistle. i suspect a doze...

Cooked for over 7 guys yesterday. It is actually easy if a few simple principles are followed. 1. Get the base ready - Kneaded half a kg of...

Made my first pita bread today. Realised how versatile this bread can be. Recipe: Make regular chappati dough but remember to add some bakin...

You can cook in less time than you take to reach a restaurant. I've long believed it, and I decided to time myself today. This week has ...

I've not cooked desserts as I thought they were time consuming and messy. How wrong ! Had four packets of milk leftover and decided to c...

Is God moral ? Does God stand above morality, defining for us what is moral and what is immoral in accordance with His will? If so, whateve...

Long long time ago, 1500 crore years back to be exact, there was a big bang, bigger than any bang you can imagine. There was nothing before ...

Here's another way to appreciate the immense distances and sizes of objects in our galaxy. (Images gathered from various sources and pho...

In space distances are vaaaaast. An atlas gives us a very distorted view of the solar system because it is impossible to show the sizes or d...

Excerpts from an excellent article ... (emphasis mine) Millions of Americans spend their lives semi-conscious, unable to awaken from the d...

I'm amazed the kind of stuff boys do on a BMX bicycle - they leap, slide, jump and seem to go over almost anything. I've decided to ...

Epicurus , Martin Seligman and many others emphasize once the basic needs of food , clothing and shelter are taken care of, money does not b...

Cycle Jayaraman, (the man who introduced me to the pleasures of cycling, and who took me on a cycling trip from Chennai to Tirupur - I gave ...

Travel & Living channel showed the way Udupi temple prepares lunch for 50,000 people . Cooking on such a scale is done in huge vats. Thi...

Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covering letter ....

Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covereing letter ...

I learnt to make yogurt the last month with the delicious 'valarmathi' curd. It was simplicity itself. Add curd to lukewarm milk - t...

Learning to cook an old dish in a new , easy way is sure fun. Kothu Parota is a often eaten dish in my studio, with Siva being an ardent loy...

I used to think fish is fish, and once you've learnt to cook one, you've learnt to cook them all. Apparently I'm wrong. I came u...

Africans like their soups/ stews slimy. Sliminess comes from dried, powdered leaves of Boabob tree or from Okra powder. In some recipes Ric...

Came across an excellent site with Sudanese recipes. It is always exciting to see how different cultures mix and match. Gorraasa :: Godumai ...

It is always a pleasure discovering a new author. I discovered Alain de Botton through his Architecture of happiness - an amazingly insight...

The source of all wealth is the amount of energy it is able to control. So wealth can be thought of in terms of energy - the larger the ener...

From an email to Ramesh after a long discussion of the amount of money people are willing to blow up to keep them 'happy'. Babs, Wh...

Science Mag talks about the biggst questions to keep us busy for the next few hundred years. I've tried commenting on some them below.....

Just saw Russel Crowe being handcuffed and frog marched to a US prison for assaulting a hotel employee because he could not get a line throu...

We try to live in a changed world with an old set of rules. This causes much stress and frustration. Every society tries to find solutions t...

Hi, Kevin Kelly , one of the unschooled, irreverent authors I admire has this site I discovered recently. Here are excerpts from some books ...

Finally managed to 'officially retire' at 36. Hope it lasts. Lots of free time now. Becomes boring if activities are not planned. Ha...

Researchers in 1984 showed that on average, patients were interrupted 18 seconds into explaining their problems to a doctor.In 1999 they fo...

Green Pea Soup Saute the onion in butter. Add the chopped garlic - Add stock and the peas. Stir in the chooped herbs with a little salt a...

Pot-in-Pot Cooling System. Invented by Mohammed Abba, Nigeria A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space betw...

mademyday On tuesday June 8th, the sun will be fainter than usual. On the face of the sun will be a small, dark dot. The dot is Venus, pas...

From Jeremy Allaire's article A Short History of Technology and the Web Trends fuelling the growth of the Internet Affordable per...

The Economist speaks.... DVD piracy may be coming soon with broadband rising and file storing becoming smarter. How do you fight it ? ...

The Indian e-learning market is still in its infancy at just $4 million as per the 2002 estimates, with an expected 4-year CAGR of 20-25 per...

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. When all else fails, read the instructions. Every task takes twice as long ...