MoneyQuin Goes Places

Hey Girls,

When we brought to you the previous edition, we were sure of what we were offering you, confident of the theme of the website as it focused on the entire money spectrum of earning, spending and investing, we knew the personalities and the issues featured in the edition had the potential to excite our followers.

But, to be candid with you, we hadn’t really guessed the response could be as enormous as this. Our analysis showed tens of thousands of you spent time reading stuff, commenting on them and offering suggestions for turning MoneyQuin into an even cooler money guide.

And we encourage you to continue this involvement with us. MQ is a dynamic organisation, open to new ideas and suggestions. And we take pride in saying that it’s not the Editor or the CEO who will shape the magazine’s future, but people like you who will decide where this mission goes. So we will continue to make changes in our offerings, incorporating your suggestions, while retaining the basic structure of MQ to make it the most favoured money website for women.

In this issue, we have again got for you an exciting mix of top personalities and issues closer to your wallet and mind. Author Shobhaa De may have already told the world what she thinks on almost everything under the sun. But after reading her interview in ‘Revelations’ in this issue, you may conclude the lady hadn’t really told you everything yet about the way she lives and spends money!

Not just this. Beauty Queen Gul Panag may just startle you as she talks about her investing skills in the column ‘My Experiments with Money’.

In our section on entrepreneurs, ‘Who’s that?’, SEWA founder Ela Bhatt talks about her initial struggle as she organised one of the biggest effort at securing rights for female workers in the informal sector.

Keeping with our theme of making money management simpler for our followers, we have a lead in ‘Invest’ section, guiding you on how to cut down the money chaos with fewer bank accounts and cards and other simple ticks.

We have a guest to recount how he saw cars change gear in the life of women in his life and around. With the brush of his personal experience he paints the journey of car and woman and captures the human emotions and increasing material prosperity in the ‘Spend’ section.

Many of us have wondered when in school or college or after we had made a choice of career, as to how the life in a career we didn’t opt for would be like. Sometime we have envied others, while on other occasions shown plain pity or even contempt. To get a peek at different careers, we have introduced a section ‘A day in the life of…’ in our ‘Earn’ segment, where a high-flier from different industry would describe her typical day as well as give an insight into the workings of the industry. We got Sonu Iyer, partner at international consulting firm Ernst & Young, to pen her ideas in this issue.

Hope you enjoy this edition!