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Indian markets are not pricing fundamentals right now. They are pricing hope, liquidity, and retail FOMO. When SIP inflows of Rs 20,000+ crore monthly are the price support, valuations stop meaning anything.

Most personal loan advertisements in India show the monthly EMI prominently. They never show the total interest paid over the loan term. A Rs 5 lakh personal loan at 18% for 5 years = Rs 7.7 lakh total repayment. Rs 2.7 lakh in interest. The bank knows this. The customer usually doesn't.

GAIL's pipeline network at 11,500+ km is longer than the distance from Delhi to Cape Town by road. It is the world's largest natural gas pipeline infrastructure. #Investingfacts #stockifi

Staying rich is far more important and more difficult than getting rich. Avoiding stupidity and being humble are the keys to staying rich.

Nifty 50 passive investing makes more sense than 90% of what your broker recommends. Yet the entire distribution industry exists to push you toward high-expense-ratio active funds. Because index funds don't pay commissions.

Uday Kotak started Kotak Mahindra with a Rs 30 lakh loan from family and friends in 1985. He was 26 years old. In 2003, he received a banking licence — the only Indian entrepreneur to receive one from RBI in decades. Patience built over 40 years.

L&T, India's largest engineering conglomerate, was started by two Danish engineers who came to India to sell dairy equipment. #Investingfacts #stockifi

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala started with Rs 5,000. At his death, his portfolio was worth Rs 40,000+ crore. One man. One portfolio. 37 years. No external capital raised.

It's impossible to predict the future. But humans can't help themselves. Educated and intelligent people promise insight and repeatedly fail by wide margins. These mistakes go unpunished. Both publicly and in our own heads.