yearindia is not directly impacted by any of the global events the russiaukraine war is largely impacting the european countries the tensions between china and the west over taiwan and otherwise are also not impacting india directly india is impacted by higher energy prices but again india is relatively better than many other countries the encouragement given to domestic manufacturing and the move from many global companies to derisk their global supply chains should benefit india in the long runyou are a voracious reader of finance books which books will you recommend to our readers especially new investorsa lot of new investors straightaway get into investing without having a clear financial plan i would recommend that new investors start with understanding the basics of personal finance some options arelets talk money monika halanyou can be rich too with goal based investing p v subramanyam m pattabiramanif god was your financial planner suresh sadagopanthe psychology of money morgan housel not really a financial planning book but interestingany special advice to our readersthere used to be a twowheeler ad which said fill it shut it forget it similarly investors should focus on periodic regular savings investing in simple and effective investment products and forgetting those investments at least for 6 months to a year evaluation of investments should not be done too frequently and one should resist the temptation for frequently tinkering with ones investments