Introduction to Famous Stock Market Crashes: 1929, 2008, and Beyond

A beginner-friendly, India-first tour of the stock market crashes that shaped modern investing, built for market enthusiasts, history and macro curious readers, and investors from every track who want to understand why markets collapse and what those collapses teach. Learn how bubbles form, why leverage and panic turn a fall into a crash, and walk through the Great Crash of 1929, Black Monday 1987, the dot-com bust and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Then turn to India's own crashes, from the Harshad Mehta scam of 1992 and the Ketan Parekh crash of 2001 to the March 2020 COVID fall on the Nifty and Sensex, and see how SEBI, RBI and the exchanges responded. Finish with the common threads behind every crash and a practical framework for building a portfolio that survives the next one.