Did you miss it? Sensex has already crossed 1 lakh mark only if you count dividends

While the price return variant of Sensex, a plain vanilla index which captures only capital gains of its constituents, is popular, a few track the trajectory of the lesser-known Total Returns index also known as Sensex TRI. Demonstrating the power of dividends and reinvesting those dividends back for compounding gains, Sensex TRI is trading around 102,000-level while the Sensex has been unable to cross the barrier at 68,000.