Our seven tolerable sins

We have had time to prepare for the challenges we may face now with the conflict in West Asia. But we didn’t get our house in order. Hopefully, there is still time to do the heavy lifting and rise to PM’s appeals

My parents got married in 1963. Ahead of the wedding, as the radio beamed bad news from the battlefront, there was no gold purchased for the marriage ceremony.

I grew up hating gold jewellery because the deferred dream of a gold chain made my exceptional mother sound ordinary.

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As a central banker, I read about poor macroeconomic outcomes arising from Indian households’ obsession with gold and I felt validated.

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