Harshad Mehta

Now, imagine I look- t-take my example, I'm 50, right? Um, if I was 50, 1993, I would have looked back at the preceding few years.

Uh, '93 was the Harshad Mehta scam for those, uh, uh, those, uh, who, who don't remember it.

So if I look back at the preceding few years, I would say what Indian equities 30 30.

Let me stick my entire life's corpus in the stock market.

... and make some money for us?" But my dad said, "So '80s had a terrific boom.

In fact, the, the stock market booms which culminated climaxed in the Harshad Mehta scam of '93 remains India's most, uh, frenetic stock market boom.

Hmm.

I think that 13 or 15-year CAGR, Shail, of that boom was 22, 23%.

... 22, 23%, right? So a lot of my Bong relatives in Kolkata got mighty excited by that.

Right.

So they took their, uh, life savings and slammed it into the market right at the top of the Harshad Mehta boom.

Right.