The Dominoes Waiting to Fall. SEBI’s stated mission is investor protection. Its revealed practice, across every structural intervention this series has examined, is the management of loss allocation, a management that consistently…
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SEBI’s Closing Auction Session: The Global Copycat
(Chapter 7) Like the filter merchant mentioned in Chapter 6, SEBI is selling a copycat solution without adequate transparency. Again, there is no representation of the public, much less retail investors. The…
SEBI introduced Closing Auction Session and Its Working.
(Chapter 6) Not everyone seems happy with the Closing Auction Session. They wonder about the reasons that prompted SEBI to introduce it. We will discuss that, but first, the effect of the…
SEBI and Its Assistance in Price Discovery of Share Prices in India.
(Chapter 5) Why SEBI introduced Closing Auction Session or CAS in India? SEBI is the apex body entrusted with oversight of financial markets. Its history and evolution have been discussed in Chapters…
Solution to the Theft Problem at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Ayodhya
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Mismanagement Issues. (Chapter 4) The theft at Ram Janmabhoomi was a product of a systemic failure at all professional levels. The management was inadequately equipped to…
Turn of the Cycle for Nithin Kamath and Zerodha
Nothing Succeeds like Success. Nothing sells better than an idea whose time has come. When the telephone was commercially launched a century back, it came with a fixed charge per month. It…
The Rupee’s Silent Revolution
The New World Order: Chapter 7 Rupee has fallen by 6% since the start of Iran War. Every financial journalist covering India in 2026 is asking the same question. Why is the…
Understanding the ‘Nation First, Duty Above Comfort’, appeal by PM Modi
PM Modi’s Appeal to Conserve Foreign Exchange. New World Order (Chapter 2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued seven specific appeals to Indians on May 10, 2026, urging resource conservation and self-reliance in…
West Bengal: What Is Wrong with the State?
Diagnosing the Problems of West Bengal. (Chapter 4) West Bengal has problems which do not reflect in numbers. Before we go into numbers, let us reflect its problem of being in stasis…
India at the Cusp of Infinite Nuclear Energy Source
India’s Breeder Reactor Goes Critical India has achieved something in nuclear energy technology that nobody in the world could achieve in the last fifty years, and it has been almost entirely ignored…
Chartered Accountants: Is India in Governance Crises?
(Chapter 8) The Private Bureaucracy that Failed Chartered Accountants occupy a unique position in India’s economic governance. They are not government officers. They are not politicians. They are licensed private professionals whose…
How AI Will Cause a Disaster?
AI Certifies Ignorance as “The Ultimate Knowledge.” AI often spread ignorance disguised as knowledge. It stamps it with a seal of authority. It adds citations. It adds confidence. It adds the appearance…
Iran Declares Blockade of Strait of Hormuz
Why USA Seem Helpless? When USA alongside Israel declared Operation Epic Fury on Iran, on 28 February 2026, it avowed to change the regime and liberate the people of Iran. So far…
Is Bond Investment Safe in India?
A Warning for every Investor in India Bond is today what Mutual Fund was before 2008. After massive collapse in value and massive outcry of investors, SEBI did a crackdown on mutual…
Will the AI Bubble burst?
AI’s Hidden Debt Trap. Everyone is talking about AI like it is going to change everything. Fix climate change, solve America’s debt, reshape the world. And maybe it will. But there’s a…
Reserve Bank’s (RBI) Monetary Policy in February 2026.
What Is Reserve Bank of India Waiting For? In the monetary policy announcement today, February 6, 2026, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra delivered a speech. He detailed the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) decision…
India’s Rupee Trade has Roots in History.
Reclaiming Monetary Heritage India’s current push for local currency trade represents more than economic strategy. It marks the return of historical monetary influence that once spanned the Gulf region. This is not…
The Budget of India for 2026 is a Placeholder.
Analysis of Budget 2026-27 India’s Union Budget 2026-27 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today at 11 AM (1 February 2026). The speech covers a broad range of policy areas. It…
SEBI: Can it Prevent Investor Losses in Financial Market?
(Part 4) SEBI Is Fighting the Gravity of Financial Markets Markets run on a simple truth that regulators refuse to acknowledge. Money is not created from thin air. Every rupee of profit…
SEBI, Enormous powers but dismal results.
(Part 3) SEBI: The Stock Market’s Failed Judge, Jury, and Executioner An average investor in India, pours savings into stocks, hopes for a brighter financial future. Then another scam hits the news….
SEBI and reasons for its Mixed Success.
(Part 2) Why SEBI has limited success? India’s stock market regulator SEBI, tells a story of good intentions paving a road to somewhere quite troubling. The journey from the Haridas Mundhra scandal…
SEBI, Origin, History and Evolution.
(Chapter 1) India’s Stock Market Rollercoaster: From Mundhra to Mehta and the Birth of SEBI. India’s stock market has always been a place where dreams meet drama. From shady deals to market…
Trump tariff tempest is a blind decision with poor consequences.
A Decision Unsupported by Analysis USA is the world’s most powerful economy. Its President has access to the finest economic research institutions, unlimited intelligence resources. It must have teams of brilliant analysts…
Why “Ideologically Correct” AI Will Fail in India
Battle of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models in India. Something interesting has unfolded. No major news outlets or analytical firms used AI predictions for Bihar election outcomes. The NDA won 201 seats against…
A Study of The Put-Call Dispersion Index or PCR.
The Put-Call Dispersion Index as a Primer on Seller-Driven Risk Appetite: A Paradigmatic Reconceptualization (Put Call Ratio Analysis) Abstract This paper introduces a novel interpretive framework for the Put-Call Dispersion Index (PCDI)…