by Meeta Chordia Singh | Oct 17, 2019 | Financial Wellness
This is the story of Anita, the mother of a three year old, in her own narrative. *Any similarities to other mothers is, but natural. After three years of leaving a long term job to have my son, I looked up the origin of the corporate phrase, ‘returning mother.’ The...
by Meeta Chordia Singh | Oct 14, 2019 | Financial Wellness
Money comes but does not stay, Being round, it rolls away. My domestic help had loaned Rs. 2500/= to someone who had been putting off returning it, causing her much angst. Sharing this occurrence with Swamiji who was visiting us at the time, I asked: “What if...
by Meeta Chordia Singh | Oct 11, 2019 | Financial Wellness
Few years ago, a father took his toddler to a gas station, the drive being a distraction to get her out of her mom’s hair. At the destination, he and his daughter alighted from the car. When it was time to leave, he started the car and drove a few metres before being...
by Meeta Chordia Singh | Oct 8, 2019 | Financial Wellness
A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich – William Shenstone I grew up in the northern Himalayan region of Kashmir. My grandfather would take his grandkids for walks in his apple orchards, where he would pick apples that had...
by Meeta Chordia Singh | Oct 5, 2019 | Financial Wellness
Over our years in school and college, how many of us have been taught that the assured path to success is to select a subject and master it through degrees, a steady career and long years of experience? Isn’t it possible that children even today are being...
