What inflation does to a decade

A lakh in 2014 does not buy what it used to — and the gap is not a feeling, it is a number you can chart. This guide walks the same basket of groceries, fuel and rent across ten years of published rates.

The quiet six percent

Nobody feels six percent in a year. Everyone feels it in a decade, because it compounds while attention does not.

Money you do not grow is money you quietly spend.

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