Renuka Jain

Mr Sanjay Leela Bhansali if I make a movie a decade later showing this accomplished director was a drug addict and used to beat his co actors on sets of course with a disclaimer that  this movie is a work of art and changes have been made to characters but use the name Sanjay Leela Bhansali How will you feel? Sanjay Leela Bhansali was born in the year 1963 in Mumbai. He was a student of Film and television Institute of India, from where he was thrown out after a spat with the institute’s director.  Bhansali is also the only filmmaker who couldn’t be bothered with authenticity, accuracy and other such yardsticks when it comes to creating cinema. Devdas He is the only filmmaker who could not only take Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s much-loved parable  Devdas  and give it a saas-bahu serial makeover in the name of creative license. After all, in the dozen odd adaptations of the novel no one could come with the idea of putting Chandramukhi and Paro in t...

Here comes the months   of February and March when  army of insurance agents goes in the overdrive. They have a sure shot  formula to save tax ! They know that you must have not planned your  tax saving for the financial  year . That is enough. Now you are the gullible person who can be persuaded to the ‘total beneficial’ world of insurance products. Your vulnerability increase with your delay in tax saving. Insurance agents are very smart and well trained. They will represent a policy in such a way that many people think that with a small investment they are going to get a huge money and they get very impressed by the presentation and believe that without analysing or investigating about the same. There are many reasons of mis selling of insurance products from both the ends. But I would say due to lack of interest, knowledge and social /emotional pressure, people mostly fall in to such traps. It is not only the insurance agents but bank...

Union Budget 2017-18 is expected to be unique in many aspects, one, this will be the first Budget immediately after demonetisation and second it will be announced on 1 February instead of customary date of February 28. With uncertainty looming large on date of introduction of GST, the Finance Ministry has its task cut out in terms of estimating or one may say guesstimating the indirect tax revenue for the fiscal year 2017-18.  Besides the clearly defined road map for GST roll out, the government may take steps to bridge the gap between the current tax rates vis-à-vis the probable rate in GST so that the negative effect of inflation on introduction of GST can be managed. I understand that respected Finance Minister has team of economists and financial wizards. However after reading various experts I have few very small points which might be taken in consideration by Ministry of finance. These are from the heart of an average Indian and not on big issues like customs duty...