LIFESTYLE
Funnycontrol | The Apple doesn’t fall far from the store
Funnycontrol takes a bite out of the new Apple Stores in India.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Counting Easter eggs in baskets marked markets, global economy
Case in point: Anyone trying to transfer funds overseas to their children for further studies would have discovered the Easter Egg of 20 percent TDS quietly inserted into this year’s Budget.
TECHNOLOGY
Funnycontrol | Every doge has his day: Elon Musk’s latest kitchen sink moment
The whole thing literally started as a joke when an anonymous user suggested Elon Musk buy Twitter and change the logo to dogecoin...
LIFESTYLE
Funnycontrol | SEBI Moore in disclosure: The sequel
Funnycontrol explores the Supari Exchange Board of India's new disclosure norms, including dispelling rumours.
TRENDS
April Fool's Day 2023: First among fools?
There are fools and then there are those who suffer no fools. And there's also Elon Musk, who is intent on unmasking the jokers hiding under blue ticks and behind spam bots.
TRENDS
Financial year-end closing: Beware the Ides of March 31
It is that time of the year when you suddenly find yourself confronted with an alphabet soup of tax exemptions. 80C, 80D, 80DD, 80U, UB40, U2.
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Funnycontrol | Hindenburg, Jack Dorsey and square deal: Block kiya jaaye?
Funnycontrol explores Hindenburg’s latest standup comedy special.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Silicon Valley: Real life edition
If you think Covid is contagious, have you seen a bank sneezing?
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | On International Women's Day 2023, a look at gender parity in unusual places
Corporate fraud, jail time for mommies and advertisements that spark more conversation than sales.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | The Holi in the markets
Somewhere between the red and the blue in the days of 1994-96 to red and green on my mobile trading app today, we all grew up.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Campus placements: The IPL of college
From lies told to recruiters to B-school version of Schindler’s list of approved CVs, college placements are no less than a 'Harry Potter' sorting-hat event.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | How to scale to a jillion trillion intergalactic dollar enterprise before lunch
Of UFOs and APIs: Unidentified financial objectives and alien portfolio investors.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol on Valentine’s Day: A love letter to Supari Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
Funnycontrol declares that his love for Supari Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is greater than the love SEBI has for the National Spiritual Exchange of India (NSE).
TRENDS
Funnycontrol on Shark Tank India, the unreality show for entrepreneurs
The Indian standup comedy circuit is a lot like 'Shark Tank India', but the only valuation metric that stands the test of time is laughter.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol on the Amrit Kaal Budget
The internet says: “Amrit Kaal is the critical time when the gates of greater pleasure open for the inhuman, angels and human beings.”
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Budget expectations of an MBA (so they make total sense)
If we could pay taxes in aloo tikki burgers, if IT folk could get sops in this season of layoffs, if spending on stand-up comedy could be made 80D deductible and if we divestment could begin with that 1980s fax machine still on the equipments lists of many PSUs...
TRENDS
Funnycontrol goes Naatu Naatu ahead of Budget 2023
10 natty observations about 'Naatu Naatu' by a professional comic.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Joshimath and that sinking feeling
How Joshimath and the markets seem to be in sync right now.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | In England vs Maths, Indian parents win
British PM Rishi Sunak wants all children in the UK to study maths in some form till they are 18 - except he seems to have forgotten to do his homework on the number of maths teachers in England.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Travelling laughs: Of standup experience at venues world over
Funnycontrol reflects on his standup journey, from the start till now, from India to the whole world around.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | 2022: A real-life version of 'The Hangover' movie
Using 'The Hangover' movie as an analogy for 2022, clearly the unexplained mattress on the hotel roof is Ukraine, the statue that it lands on is NATO and the hotel is the hapless global economy.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol: Macroeconomic Messi, Inflation Avengers and more ways the Fed packed as many surprises as the FIFA World Cup this year
All about crossovers between FIFA World Cup 2022 and the US economy and stocks in 2023.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Delhi airport mess: Bring your own tray
Questions and queues grow as each passenger at security check tries to work out whether to put the laptop in the bag and bag in the tray or take it all out to put in individual trays.
TRENDS
Funnycontrol | Wednesday Addams would make Benjamin Graham proud. Here's why
Werewolves over bulls & bears, and more financial lessons from Netflix show Wednesday.
