We plan to bring eChai across 100 cities in India. It starts with eChai Startup Demo Day on 26 September, all in person. 13 cities confirmed, 743 founders registered. Any city that reaches 20 interested founders is on too. See your city

M. Pattabiraman

Freefincal

Runs Freefincal, a no-nonsense India personal-finance education site.

Why follow them

Freefincal teaches goal-based planning with plain math and free calculators, and refuses to sell you products, rare in Indian personal finance.

Covers

Financial planning Index investing

Where they're public

Their own channels. Read the work first.

Website

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JL Collins
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and the Stock Series. The clearest, calmest case ever written for low cost index investing and leaving it alone. Global, but the mindset travels straight to India. Index investingBehavioural money
Bogleheads
The community reference on simple, low cost index investing. The canonical, no-hype guide to building a simple portfolio and why costs and discipline beat cleverness. Index investing

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