Where There Is Will There Is A Way

We require financial advice throughout our life, either from financial consultants, colleagues, friends, or maybe from teachers. Lakshit Bhatnagar, 29, an Information Technology (IT) professional, working for a well-known IT firm in Pune considers himself lucky to have reliable financial advisors in the form of his father and brother-in-law. Although he started earning professionally from the age of 22, in college, Bhatnagar started earning through providing tuitions, consultancy and also performing gigs. Through these activities he would make a handsome Rs10,000-15,000 in a month. He would charge Rs4,000 and in some cases Rs10,000 for performing at a musical show. By the time he was 21, Bhatnagar had already saved around Rs9,000, which was six months’ saving. This inculcated in him the idea and power of saving money. It is at this point that his father advised, “You are...