Over the past few months, the foreign exchange market has joined the Indian bond market in implying that despite the Monetary Policy Committee’s efforts, India will not meet its commitment of limiting consumer price index (CPI) inflation to 4 per cent till March 2021. But even if India were to have high inflation of 5-7 per cent over the long term, the domestic equity component of one’s portfolio is likely to partially mitigate this over the long term, that is, over many decades. However, neither domestic equity nor domestic real estate can be relied upon to mitigate several country-specific tail