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MUSING 43 THE SHORTEST BOOK ON FINANCE - EVER ALL OF 87 WORDS PART 1 Good morning and a happy Republic Day to all. We all have read a number of finance or investment related books. While writing my books, I must have read more than 50 of them, a shortlist of the recommended ones I will share in this post. Every book requires an investment of your time and money and may or may not give you the “bang for the buck”. In this post, I will introduce you to the shortest finance book ever written- all of 87 words. The book has been written by the famous cartoonist, Scott Adams, the creator of the iconic Dilbert comic strip. Some trivia before I lay out the book before you. Adams titled his book as, “Everything You Need to Know About Financial Planning” but when he went for publishing his book to the publishers, they declined, not because the contents of the book were not juicy enough but because it was too short to be published as a book. Be that as it may, Adams still cal...

MUSING 42 MY SECOND BABY IS BORN It gives me immense pleasure to announce the publishing of my second book, “The Millionaire Mechanic”. It has been around 20 months since my first book, “Musings of a Financially Illiterate Father” got published which is already an Amazon Bestseller and has been in global top 20 for the last 4 months. I hope and pray that my second book also receives your love and patronage. In fact, the book has had a promising debut- breaking into top 100 in its genre of “Business and Finance” within first one week of being published. It is ranked # 93 as of yesterday. Of course, “Musings of a Financially Illiterate Father” continues its relentless successful march in top- 20. It was ranked # 16 on 04 Jan 2020. With “The Millionaire Mechanic”, I have attempted a new genre in Indian writing- a Financial Travelogue . The story narrates the road trip of two friends, HoneyCool and Anshreya (the protagonists of my first book) to Kutch. During the trip, the...