Curate your ownSearch this and you get a loan app's blog, an influencer agency, and posts dated 2023. They rank by subscriber count, which in Indian finance selects almost perfectly for the people selling you something. The filter here is how a person gets paid. If the answer is a stock tip or a paid community, they are not on this list. What survives is smaller than you would expect, and it is nine sources rather than twelve, because freefincal, Moneylife and Zerodha Varsity each appear twice: once as a written archive and once as a channel. Those halves are genuinely different, and freefincal's blog in particular is the better half. Checked in August 2026, and the checking matters. Pranjal Kamra has published nothing since April 2025. Labour Law Advisor's feed is now general-curiosity shorts about lightning and procrastination rather than tax. Any list still recommending those as finance channels is describing 2022. Start with freefincal if you want the arithmetic, Zerodha Varsity if you want to be taught in sequence, and the flat-fee planner directory if you actually need to make a decision rather than read about one. Monika Halan is the one to read on insurance, because she has no distribution income to protect. Moneylife is the only outfit here that reports on this industry rather than working inside it. Conflicts, stated. Zerodha is a broker and earns when you trade, which is why Varsity is free. Capitalmind runs a PMS. Shankar Nath is a registered Research Analyst (INH000022093) whose sector videos carry projected CAGR figures, so read those differently from his mutual fund explainers. Basavaraj Tonagatti is a fee-only SEBI RIA and legally cannot take commission. Asset Yogi is the one entry included for reach and clarity in Hindi rather than for a verified revenue model, so treat its IPO reviews as commentary.
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youtube.comAsset Yogi · Channel
Covers in Hindi the ground the English channels skip: EPF versus PPF versus NPS, the 999 rupee EMI trap, ITR filing walked through end to end. Here for reach and clarity. The IPO review videos edge toward recommendation, so treat those as commentary rather than analysis.
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Author of Let's Talk Money and former editor at Mint. One of very few people in Indian personal finance with no product to sell at all, which is why she can write about insurance mis-selling without a distribution income to protect.
youtube.comShankar Nath · Channel
Registered Research Analyst, INH000022093, working solo with no community or advisory funnel behind him. The mutual fund, SIP and international investing explainers are excellent. Read the sector videos differently: several carry projected CAGR figures for hospitals and chemicals, and a projection is a forecast, not a finding.
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youtube.comBasuNivesh Fee Only Financial Planners · Channel
Fee-only SEBI RIA, registration INA000019053, which legally means he cannot take commission on anything he mentions. Short videos on the boring things that decide outcomes: PPF deposit limits, NPS allocation, whether gifting mutual funds saves tax. It does not. Note the feed slowed after February 2026.
youtube.comCapitalmind · Channel
Deepak Shenoy's team, and the strongest material anywhere on NRI and OCI taxation, which almost nobody covers properly. Conflict: Capitalmind runs a PMS, and some videos are about its own products. Those are easy to spot because they carry the product name.
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The written Varsity, free and ad-free. Still the best structured stock market education produced in India, and it is not close. Same broker conflict as the channel, and worth reading anyway because the material never pushes you toward trading frequency.
youtube.comZerodha Varsity · Channel
Karthik Rangappa's curriculum in video form, currently working through fundamental analysis episode by episode in Hindi. Sequential teaching rather than a feed you fall behind on. Conflict, stated plainly: Zerodha is a broker and earns when you trade, which is why this is free.
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The magazine. Subscription funded, which is why it can investigate the companies that advertise everywhere else. Moneylife Foundation also runs a free grievance helpline, which is a rarer thing in Indian finance than any amount of commentary.
youtube.comMoneylife · Channel
Moneylife's channel, run by Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu. Dalal broke the Harshad Mehta scam and holds a Padma Shri for that reporting. Recent videos cover NSE and RTI, cyber fraud, and infrastructure built to show rather than to last. The only outfit here reporting on the finance industry rather than working inside it.
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freefincal.comM. Pattabiraman · Article
The most useful page on this list. A maintained directory of SEBI-registered advisers who charge a flat fee, which legally bars them from earning commission on anything they recommend. If you click one link here, this is the one that changes a decision rather than an opinion.
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The written archive behind the channel, and the more useful half. Spreadsheet-led, shows its arithmetic, and reaches conclusions the industry prefers to round away, including that most Indians will not retire comfortably. He sells his own calculators and ebooks. He does not sell funds, insurance or tips.
#investing#personal finance#mutual funds#india#diy#economics
youtube.comfreefincal - Prudent DIY Investing (freefincal) · Channel
M. Pattabiraman teaches physics at IIT Madras and has run this for over a decade without taking sponsorship. A recent upload is titled "Criticism: Pattu is extremely conservative and will get a govt pension", which tells you how he handles disagreement. Start with the retirement corpus videos.
