Nirmal Amin

Co-founder, TLDR Money · Architect by training

Nirmal Amin co-founded TLDR Money and designed the product itself — the app, the characters and this site. He trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University, which is a background in working out how a system has to be put together before anyone lives in it, and that is the same instinct the writing here runs on.

He writes the money mechanics series: the arithmetic behind EMIs, rent versus buy, subscription creep, and the date you could actually stop working, run on Indian salaries in rupees. Most Indian money writing either sells a product or restates a formula built for a different country. These posts do the second thing properly — the sources are RBI, SEBI, NSE and the Income Tax Department, they are linked where the figure appears, and every projection states the assumption it rests on so you can disagree with the assumption rather than the conclusion.

He is not a financial adviser and has never claimed to be. The posts here are explanations of how the numbers work, not advice about your money, and TLDR Money is not a registered investment adviser or distributor. The reason to read any of it is that the arithmetic is shown, so you can check it.

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Apple Pay is live in India, on one bank’s credit cards

EPF Scheme 2026: The 25% You Can No Longer Withdraw

Gold ETFs vs Equity Funds: The Crossover That Lasted One Month

How Indian Personal Finance Apps Actually Make Money

Asset Allocation by Age in India: Four Official Answers That Disagree

The 4% Rule: Where the Number Came From, and What It Was Tested On

UPS vs NPS: What the Assured Pension Actually Assures

Consolidated Account Statement: What Your CAS Shows, and What It Leaves Out

Specialized Investment Funds: What ₹10 Lakh Actually Buys

Your personal inflation rate in India: why CPI is not your number

Where your home loan EMI money actually goes

Life cycle funds: what SEBI actually built, and what leaving costs

Income Tax Act 2025: what actually changed for you

Is that flat overpriced? Its rent already told you

Why most expense trackers in India are Android-only

Is it safe to give an expense app SMS permission?

How to track expenses on an iPhone in India

Gmail expense tracking in India: how it actually works

UPI stays free for you. From 15 October, shops pay 0.4% above ₹2,000.

Your SIP earns 11.7%. Your EMI charges 16%. Do the math.

We read 50 credit card statements. Here’s where ₹8,000 a month disappears.

The ₹500 subscription trap: where your salary quietly disappears

₹16,000 vs ₹10 crore: why salary alone won’t make you rich

93% of F&O traders in India lost money. The 7% weren’t smarter.

Rent vs buy in India: the real cost of a ₹1 crore flat

EMI-to-income ratio: how much of your salary belongs to the bank