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This day(August 9), that year (1944) something special happened in a single room outhouse close to my ancestral house (Manakkal) located in a remote village called Onchiyam in the then Malabar District of Madras Province. Below is a link to my write up recalling the event published during the pandemic (2019-20) : My Journey So Far: Prologue https://share.google/bDPZyq47T9cxqhJZg Excerpts : I was born past midnight on Tuesday, August 8, 1944, to be exact at 0015 hrs on Wednesday, August 9, 1944. Place of birth was a small outhouse, adjacent to our maternal ancestral house in Malabar. After the birth of my 3 sisters between 1926 and 1939, the arrival of a male child was an occasion for celebration in the family. Frankly, last 81 years, for me it was a mixed bag of happy and not so happy experiences, the former more than compensating the latter. Select Happy Memories have been included in my 2023 book "Open Book Of Happy Memories" : Open Book of Happy Memories : ( and O...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Thursday July 31, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during August 2025. Collage in this format is taking a short break. Nice Day M G Warrier A Cover Story By Reshmy Warrier https://medium.com/@reshmywarrier/a-monk-and-a-prisoner-83f90133cb01 Excerpts : "A Monk and A Prisoner Reshmy Warrier Reshmy Warrier A reflection on freedom, constraint, and the choices that shape who we really are. Today, I chanced upon a strange thought. What really differentiates a monk and a prisoner? Mind you, this is not an attempt to invade religious sanctums or to trivialize the justice system. It’s simply a quiet reflection. What lies at the intersection of a monk and a prisoner’s lives? simple food, contained communal living, rules, routines, chores, limited freedom From an architectural or lifestyle perspective, the parallels are… almost eerily similar. But the key difference is Choice". B Collage Dance Mess...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday July 27, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Spirituality Many of us are confused about the relevance of philosophy, spirituality, religion and ethics in the WhatsApp/Google/DOLLAR dominated world. Some of us try to translate every thought into the scientific, religious or political language and attribute one or the other motive even before a debate is initiated. To take a diversion, this morning I picked up Isavasyopanishad and read the Sanskrit verses and the English meaning. For me the feeling was one of spending few minutes with a wise man. The Isha Upanishad's core message revolves around the interconnectedness of all things and the presence of the divine within and without. It emphasizes the unity of the individual self (Atman) and the ultimate reality (Brahman), urging practitioners to see the divine in all beings and all beings in the divine. The Upanisha...

Me and Number 27 Here are some stanzas @27 conveying similar meanings : Soundarya Lahari - Verse 27 https://share.google/6rsZVnTeghHtKs0qK Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 9.27: The Most Confidential Knowledge, Text 27. https://share.google/gniUs4oK05xeh96IA Stanza 27 of Shivanandalahari By Shankaracharya : Karasthe hemadrou Gireesha nikatasthe dhana pathou, Gruhasthe sarvabujamara surabhi chinthamanir gane, Shirasthe sheetamsau charana yugalsthe akhila shubha, Kamartha dasyoham bhavathu bhavadarthe mama mana. 27 In your hands is the Golden mountain, Near you is the Lord of Riches, In your house is the wish giving tree, The Cow which grants everything, The precious stone fulfilling , Any wish that enters your mind, And such many others, On your head is the moon with cool rays, And all the good in the world is always on your feet, And so what can slave offer you my Lord, Except my mind which can be given as the offering.

Speaking Tree (Economic Times, July 17, 2025) Solitude & Loneliness One need not agree with all the views aired in pieces like this. But, many of us skip such articles assuming that "this is not my cup of tea". Writers like Narayani Ganesh read and remember a lot, before putting together pieces like this. It's for us to take advantage of the balanced dish served on our table. In this column today (Speaking Tree, ET, July 17, 2025), the writer observes loneliness from different angles and digs out different perspectives of different people across time zones. When we read, what gets our attention will depend on our mood while reading and our journey so far. In my case, my thoughts wandered around my personal experience as a loner and spells of absolute loneliness I've experienced in crowds (to borrow the theme of the title of MT Vasudevan Nair's book "Aalkkoottathil Thaniye"(Alone in The Crowd). During my childhood, due to circumstances beyond our...

A piece of history* Rattanbai Petit, the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah Rattanbai Petit, the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader behind the Pakistan Movement, was a Parsi from an aristocratic family in Bombay, with there being a 24-year age gap between the couple. She is buried in Mumbai and her descendants, the Wadias (through their daughter Dina) live in India. Rattanbai Petit (often informally called "Ruttie") was born on 20 February 1900 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, into the extremely affluent and well-connected Petit family that belonged to the Parsi community. She was the only daughter of the businessman Sir Dinshaw Petit, the second baronet Petit, and his wife Lady Dinabai Petit. Her paternal grandfather, Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, the first baronet, had built some of the earliest cotton mills in India. He was also a philanthropist who aided the Zoroastrians of Iran who were persecuted by the Qajars. Her brother, Fali, who later became Sir Dinshaw...