Author: Larissa Fernand

Bangalore: The flight-to-safety instinct results in investors discontinuing their SIPs and channelizing their money into term deposits. But stick to your asset allocation and stay invested in a good equity fund. Over the long term you won’t regret it.

On June 30, 2012, one of the national media publications in our country gushed over Shiva Thapa. “With boyish exuberance he is all set to take on the world,” was one of the observations they recorded. After India’s boxing sensation lost to Mexico’s Oscar Valdez Fierro, the newspaper spoke about his “severe beating”.

The magazine First Post picked up the issue of media coverage. The result was a terse, but very interesting, piece on how the imaginative headlines and reports in various publications did not do the fight justice and the 18-year old showed “tremendous guts and ferocity against a vastly experienced opponent” and “no one gave the brave 18 year old a ‘severe beating’ ”.