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Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday June 8, 2025 Friends As you have rightly noticed, Collage has become irregular in its frequency and unpredictable in content. Still, believe me, there are a few who are looking forward to the next issue. That keeps the Collage going. Happy Birthday to all readers having birthday during this week. M G Warrier A Cover Story Newspaper : M G Warrier I belong to a generation which depended on newspapers for reliable news and the neighborhood gossips for news around. Went through a short period without newspapers during the pandemic. Newspapers are still around. They may survive till a mad man becomes greedy and starts imposing huge tariffs on newsprint foolishly believing that he can save the sinking ship by creating more revenue instead of producing something marketable at home. Once upon a time, the newspaper boy who came on cycle and the ringing of the bell on the cycle early in the morning was the morning alarm for some. Recently I...

"The Eight Spiritual Breaths" by Santhosh Sachdeva Book overview “It is good of you to have come to pay homage to your Master and be with him in his final hours. But what would have been even better is that you would have continued with your practice.” – The Buddha to his disciples When Padmasambhava, the renowned yogi and teacher at the University of Nalanda migrated to Tibet with a select group of disciples, he continued to share his knowledge with those he considered worthy to receive it. According to legend, among his teachings was a set of powerful Breathing Exercises designed to help human beings realise their highest potential. Centuries later, a spiritual seeker from the West journeyed to Tibet to learn this sacred knowledge. After returning, he formulated a course based on these Breathing Exercises that he taught to his students, and also offered through correspondence to spiritual aspirants everywhere. In 1977, this course of Breathing Exercises was taught by Swami ...

Narayaneeyam, Canto 54-56 : Kaliyamardhanam Narayaneeyam recited by Melpathur Narayanan Bhattathiripad before Guruvayoorappan is almost an abridged version of Bhagavatham. Each Canto generally describes a different episode in Krishna's life. The story of the serpent Kaliya takes 3 Cantos, 54-56. Canto 55 covers Kaliyamardhanam or "Dance Upon Kaliya" : https://youtu.be/bGASlG8zVk4?si=PLN5QopsnXsol7SK Malayalam Poet Sugathakumari has written a poem "Kaliyamardhanam". Listen : https://youtu.be/PC0v2_EJMSA?si=QGcI-z6Ehc9f67DT The poet integrates the destined human sufferings beautifully into the mythological symbol of Kaliya. The final thoughts of endurance and surrender accepting the results of one's Karma with humility is woven as a poem using her poetic skills and imagination in right proportion. The Deity of Krishna depicting the concept of the multi-purpose life of Krishna is exhibited in a variety of forms and decoration in different parts of the day ...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday June 1, 2025 Friends A reader wanted to know whether the Jalan Committee report was influenced politically. He asked the basis on which the upper limit for RBI reserves was fixed at 7,5% now and whether it was just an arbitrary figure. We open a discussion on the subject at A below. Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week 🎉 Regards M G Warrier A RBI Accounts RBI's Surplus Transfer to GOI for 2024-25 Last week, Reserve Bank of India published Bank's Annual Report and Balance Sheet. For the year 2024-25, RBI earned record income and as is customary and statutorily required, transferred the surplus income of Rs2.68 lakh crores to Government of India. The transfer was after usual appropriations including transfer of a substantial amount to Bank's Contingency Reserve Fund. Before and after the above transaction, there has been speculations, analysis and comments on the subject in the mainstream media. Th...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On May 27, 2025 Friends This brief midweek edition is to cover current issues. Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week 🎉 Regards M G Warrier A RBI surplus income transfer to GOI My response to The Hindu Business Line editorial on May 26, 2025 Balanced view This refers to your editorial "Fine balance"(HBL, May 26). This is the first balanced analysis about RBI's surplus income transfer to GOI for FY2024-25. While RBI is making efforts every year to be more transparent in its accounting practices, some quarters attribute motives to GOI expectations about receipts from financial institutions government owns to finalisation of income and expenditure statements by such institutions. Sometimes such gossips border irrelevant speculation. We need to appreciate RBI for gradually introducing more transparency in the appropriation of its surplus income. So far, inadvertently though, an impression was created in some q...

Good Morning May 2025 issue of Business Manager is a tribute to Dr Udai Pareek when his students and colleagues are remembering him in his Birth Centenary Year. Dr Pareek is known as the father of Human Resources Development/Management in India. About him, later. Here's a brief one page article on "The Present and Emerging Future" which appears on page 6 of the current issue of BM on my table. Ever wondered why people take interest in history and archaeology or Space Science and plans for periods much beyond their anticipated Life Span? For example Modiji talking about India in 2047! Read this article. Regards M G Warrier