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Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On May Day, 2025 Friends This brief midweek edition is to recognise the significance of May Day and also to honour those torchbearers who keep the memories of sacrifices that have gone into the evolution of several rights we are enjoying. With Greetings M G Warrier A May Day 2025 https://news24online.com/trending/labour-day-2025-surprising-facts-and-hidden-history-you-probably-didnt-know/546971/ International Labour Day, also called International Worker’s Day. It’s a day to thank and honour workers for their hard work in all kinds of jobs. B Miles to go https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities#:~:text=May%201%20has%20come%20to,for%20an%20eight%2Dhour%20workday. Report from US May 1 has come to be known as International Workers’ Day and has strong ties to Chicago, where the first-ever May Day event was held in 1886 with thousands of workers protesting for an eight-...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 27, 2025 UPODGHATHAM https://youtu.be/Fnr9gif5xXY?si=wjbKdvo6pjJrI6ur NO ONE Could STOP CRYING: 98 YEAR OLD HIROSHIMA SURVIVORS VIOLIN & PIANO DUET SHATTERS EVERYONE He thought she had died. She thought he was gone forever. But after nearly 75 years apart, two survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing — Takeshi Nakamura (94) and Yuriko Sato (93) — reunite to finish the song they wrote together as teenagers, moments before the world around them was torn apart. This is not just a musical performance. It is a living memory — a lullaby for the children who never grew up, a final note for the love that was silenced by war, and a powerful prayer for peace. Their hands may tremble, but their hearts still remember every note, every word left unspoken. A Collage Editorial Friends "There's an old saying* which roughly means : Before doing anything, consider the positive and negative impacts, if you go ahead and t...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 20, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday April 26, 2025. Social media sources are overflowing with advice and suggestions about how you should live your life ❤️. I'm aware of the futility of adding to that by sharing links like the one below at A. In a way, as I said recently, many of us keep our thoughts to ourselves 🙏. We need not research for text book solutions to all our problems. But there is a need to interact and share. We may not be able to follow scriptures the way earlier generations did. But, by sharing thoughts, some new doors may open. M G Warrier A Oprah Winfrey Let go & take rest https://youtu.be/E7i5wcfT9x8?si=-JRS2HnWwKVkj4Gb B https://api-esp.piano.io/-c/585/26078/416717/10445058/882581/dcfaea85924a6ed749fb3bb49583c048/5891/289801944?attrs=0&order=0 The Hindu Frontline shared the above link with me. Hope this opens for you. Rememb...

The Cross : A Powerful Symbol Of Forgiveness Good Friday today. Every Easter Season, we reinforce the memories of Jesus and remember his message. The Times of India article (Speaking Tree, April 18, 2025) focus on the relevance of forgiveness in life. My view is : We should forgive ourselves first. Yes, many of us carry a baggage of regrets and pains from the past, which are irrelevant today. Why not leave them in the first dustbin we see on the way? You will feel much lighter after that, even if you are overweight! Revenge and forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. Till my early seventies I was more revengeful in my thoughts. In some cases I was waiting for an opportunity. Opportunities came. By that time I realised that my target individuals had become frail and weak and no strength left in them to accept the punishment. M G Warrier

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 13, 2025 Friends I was in Kerala from April 2 to 9, 2025. Visited some relatives and friends in Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur and attended a wedding on Sunday, April 6, 2025. Tried to meet maximum number of friends and relatives in the available time. At the wedding we attended, I interacted with 3 guests who were 92 plus. None of them were complaining about their own health issues or corruption in government. Their approach to life had changed. They were more practical and happy and contented. We need not wait to reach 90 plus for that changeover. The world outside is different from what we guess, reading WhatsApp messages and watching Media's "Vruthaakandhakshobham" (word borrowed from Shankaracharya). Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Hanuman Jayanti on April 12, 2025 Those who have time and patience, please read Swami Swaroopananda's write up @ Speak...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Thursday, March 27, 2025 Friends As a child, I have watched my grandmother going to a page at random in her prized possession of "Bhagavatam" and reading two lines from the top of the left hand side page that opens, before going to the page where she has kept the marker. Today, before I took up my usual routine reading, I remembered her and opened the pocket edition of Bhagavad Gita and believe me, the right hand page I got was the beginning of Chapter 10 (VibhootiYogah). For the first time, I read the Chapter which has 42 Stanzas, in one sitting. No big deal, you may think. But, I have been always getting more and more impressed by the Jagad Guru's qualities as a teacher. For his Mom, he just opened his mouth to show the Universe, he made his devotee in Guruvayoor (Melpathur) recite "Agre Pashyami..." once he was able to feel His presence and the less intelligent Warrior and Comrade who happened to be related to ...