Somewhere in the last two decades, one number quietly became the unofficial finish line of Indian financial life. Not a number tied to your actual expenses, your city, or your family size — just ₹1,00,00,000, floating in the cultural background of every SIP calculator reel, every “how to become a…
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India has a money story
The people, traditions, businesses and behaviours behind India’s evolving relationship with money and wealth
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How Real Estate became India’s Favourite Investment
Ask an Indian family what “doing well” looks like, and somewhere in the answer — usually early — a piece of property gets mentioned. Not a portfolio. Not a number in a bank app. A plot, a flat, a house with someone’s name on the registry. This is the story…
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What is financial freedom in India? And how much money do you actually need?
Somewhere between a Twitter thread about retiring at 35 and a WhatsApp forward about crorepatis, “financial freedom” became a number everyone quotes and almost nobody has actually calculated for their own life. Here’s what the number really depends on — and why the popular figure floating around probably isn’t yours….