A question I get asked a lot is about the use of celebrities in CaratLane. There are two types of celebrities that we use in CaratLane. Today, I am going to tell you about one of them. This is the set of celebrities that inaugurate CaratLane stores. Store openings are…

I am super bullish on India. The next decade will be India’s decade. These statements are very common these days. Everyone from academics, politicians, investors, business people etc is forecasting a great future fir India and sharing a lot of data points to back it up. So I am not…

This weekend I went on an entertainment overdrive. I saw the movie version of the book – A man called Ove. Was once again reminded; what a beautiful story it is. I want to read the book again. Tom Hanks was perfect in this role. One of those rare examples…

If you have followed Sri Lankan cricket, you have surely heard these names. Aravinda de Silva Ranjith Fernando Dilhara Fernando Thisara Perera Dhananjaya de Silva I have and I never noticed one very unique characteristic of these names. Until today that is ( I think of myself as highly curious…

I was on a flight from Bangkok to Koh Samui today. As expected the plane had tourists from all over the world. As I was watching them, I was thinking of the friend and foe combinations and the stereotypes we have for some of those nationalities. …

Today’s a big first for me. I saw lions and tigers outside a zoo for the first time. This was in the Safari Park in Bangkok. Although you could argue that a Safari is still a glorified zoo. I missed any tiger sightings when I was in Kanha earlier this…

For the longest time, I would almost feel ashamed about certain aspects of our ancient Indian civilisation. How could so many invaders come and plunder us so many times ? How could we be subjugated and ruled by so many foreigners for so long ? Why were we so weak…

I read this in Morgan Housel’s book. That liquidity is the biggest strength of an investor. Don’t worry if all your money is not invested somewhere and not giving you atleast market level returns. It might hurt you in the short term. But your liquidity will allow you to take…

There is no impactful and differentiated skill that you can learn very quickly. If it was possible, then most people would have acquired it. If many people had that skill, it wouldn’t be differentiated anymore. It’s because of the long learning period and the time it takes before you start seeing any meaningful progress, that most people give up. As a result few people acquire it and it becomes a unique differentiated skill. It’s as simple as that.