Paytm’s investors are in for a long ride and Jet Airways’s flight seems to be taking forever as Akasa Air clears some important milestones.
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Advait here. As Paytm’s stock fell by a quarter on its debut on the exchanges earlier today, I couldn't help but think of Babu Rao, the hapless landlord played by Paresh Rawal in Hera Pheri. He got zero rent from his tenants, who nearly always took him for a ride. The Paytm investor, it looks like, is in for …
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Advait is a financial journalist and a former writer at The Morning Context. Here, he wrote on India’s banks, the wider financial services industry and the fintech ecosystem. He has previously worked with the Economic and Political Weekly, Business Standard, BloombergQuint and MediaNama, where he covered everything from the Reserve Bank of India to fintech policy.
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