Agatha Christie, the bestselling author of the Hercule Poirot detective novels, is so popular that her books are outsold only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. When Christie

In November 1841, Charles Dickens took out a life insurance policy worth £5,000 (£360,000 today). At this time, he had already published five novels including Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist.

You have heard of Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), one of the greatest existential novelists of the century past. If you have not, we suggest you read his works. To

According to a recent study by an Australian insurance company ‘Compare the market’, Indian drivers are among the worst in the world. The fourth worst, to be precise, and only

We dug patiently into the insurance archives and found that Queen Victoria had a life insurance policy! As per the records, Queen Victoria had a policy worth £2,000 (= £200,000

From ‘My Experiments with Truth’:   “About the time I took up chambers in Bombay, an American insurance agent had come there a man with a pleasing countenance and a

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This is an advertisement that the TVS Motor Company placed in The Hindu in 1958. In 1912, T. V. Sundaram Iyengar took a risk and provided people with a new,