Startling revelations following from consumer complaints, proves how your friendly neighbourhood jeweller may be cheating you, reports Sucheta Dalal

Indians are the world's biggest gold lovers. We account for one-fifth of world gold sales and nearly 70% of this goes into gold jewellery. But the gold jewellery market is so fraught with unfair trade practices that even a sympathetic National...

Babur authored a unique document in history, titled the Babur Nama, Journal of Babur where he has recorded events and noted down his assessment of the potentates and artists and poets he encountered. The Babur Nama(Penguin Books, India, Rs. 350) is the earliest example of autobiographical writing and one of the finest, unrivalled for more than five centuries, until a diary maintained by Queen...

Behavioural finance is a new field of study and Parag Parikh, a Mumbai-based stock broker is one of the first to write a book on it in India. His book "Stocks to Riches" adapts behavioural finance to the Indian context. Retail investors largely are ignorant about the behavioural patterns and attributes while being a part of the macro system. To illustrate this, he has interesting chapters in...