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Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE December 1, 2020 Tuesday Ratan Tata's speech https://youtu.be/9dLKZZN5tSo (About India's own car "Indica") Good Morning 🙏 Friends Recently, Collage introduced Dr Anand Narayanan to you. Today, please watch a documentary on Travancore Observatory from him using this link: https://youtu.be/mqaAmHDiBWM For this documentary, Anand has won Special Award for Technical Excellence at the Tenth National Science Film Festival of India, 24-27, November 2020. Anand led the research and production of the documentary. Voice for the movie was given by Shashi Tharoor's sister Shobha. Now, reversing the introduction, my batchmate R Narayanan Thiruvananthapuram is Anand's father. If you have not listened to Anand yet, please do today. Collage has shared links last week. Besides professional excellence, Anand has a

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Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 30, 2020 Monday M G Warrier Festival https://youtu.be/lRHvS8zvKh0 (Thiruvannamalai Karthika Deepam 2020) 🙏🙏🙏 A Quote for the day: ”The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself." -Ramana Maharshi B Book Review: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People https://citywire.co.uk/new-model-adviser/news/book-review-the-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people-by-stephen-covey/a467559

Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 29, 2020 Sunday Morning Special Edition 🙏 M G Warrier Satyajit Ray Oscars 1992 https://youtu.be/xksRC4AcEzk (Ray's acceptance speech from hospital bed in Kolkata 🙏) Music https://youtu.be/ZAkr0KFFLLs (Piyu Bole...) (Link courtesy: Ramesh Warrier) Blogs and Links 1) Book Review Book Review: Promised Land https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/obamas-new-memoir-good-bad-and-ugly/article33168213.ece Another view. 2) India Growth Story https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/india-needs-to-become-an-economic-power-in-order-to-be-a-global-power Analysis by a IIMA Alumni 3) Life: Perceptions & Reflections https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/thedocpoet/mere-liye-main-qaafi-hoon-27965/ Posted online comments Received from Dr Prabha Ramadurai I really I loved it so thought of sharing wit

November 28, 2020 Saturday Along with Gods https://thg.page.link/yBFXSgcv69rFLb1NA Good Morning 🙏 Please share the Amazon Author Page link at with your contacts outside India. Some of them will be able to access and read some of my books free. M G Warrier A Quote* for the day: "All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.” -Rahul Gandhi A Satyajit Ray Movie https://youtu.be/zACGLjd9JNY Books by M G Warrier Now available at Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/M-G-Warrier/e/B079ZC3JKX?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_r00_abau_000000 Books on display: 1 Restoring TRUST in Governance 2. India's Decade of Reforms 3 Assorted Letters of Dissent 4. Scrambled Monologues 5 Chasing Inclusive Growth (eBook) 6. Saving for Survival 7 Ants and Honey Bees M G Warrier: Incomplete Scribblings Riots... Journey begins Men... and women Running... howling Crying..

November 27, 2020 Friday 🙏 M G Warrier India Constitution Day, 2020 November 26, 2020 https://www.mygov.in/campaigns/constitution-day/ https://demo2020.moneylife.in/article/how-much-of-indian-constitution-is-for-we-the-people/29687.html (A 2012 article by M G Warrier published @ moneylife.in) A Quote for the day: "Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read." — Henning Mankell B Interaction V Babusenan Wordsworth and Kumaran Asan In the sonnet on Westminster Bridge, Wordsworth, in his poetic way, said that, if at all there was any person who was not touched by the beauty and grandeur of the sight that the bridge offered, he was definitely a dullard. That was in the beginning of the 19th Century. A full 100 years later, the famous Malayalam poet, Kumaran Asan, expressed similar sentiments in a poem 'Veena Poovu' (Fallen Flowe

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 26, 2020 Thursday 🙏 M G Warrier Celebrating Life https://youtu.be/t60d9mMi9FA A Quote* for the day: "What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." -Jean Paul Sartre *More Quotes from Sartre @ G A Interaction 1). V Babusenan Wordworth and the Reserve Bank of India: If Wordsworth's all words are worthy, Galsworthy's all words will be galling. Wordsworth had a direct relation with French Revolution. He, being quite young when the Revolution took place in1789, naturally wrote: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive And to be young was very heaven!" One may

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 25, 2020 Wednesday 🙏 Posted by: M G Warrier A Quotes* for the day: "Intelligence is Divine....Rig Veda Not to be misused with negativity...in thinking...." -Excerpted from a Reader's Message "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russel *More Quotes on intelligence and stupidity @ G BB A correction K R Krishnakumar I have gone through the weblink relating to Dr Anand Narayanan. I could not view the programme aired in Doordarshan in 2014. Anand is basically an Engineer who later on branched out to Astrophysics. Great achievement of a young scientist . I understand that currently he teaches in Indian Institute of Spacescience and Technology. Wish him success in all his endeavours. (The 2014 award-winning DD program in Malayalam was "Akalangalile Prapancham". Writing from memory, I wrote "Aak

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 22, 2020 Sunday TATWAMASI https://youtu.be/ZdqojkIKvmA (Harivarasanam: Yesudas) 🙏🙏🙏 Music (Jiya Re...Jab Tak Hai Jaan...) https://youtu.be/smn3mDBOUy4 (Link courtesy: Ramesh Warrier) Quotes* for the day: "War in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are victors. If they are vanquished- they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman- you must live through defeat.... -Samhita Arni, Sita's Ramayana *More Quotes @ G Posted by: M G Warrier A Interaction 1) C V Subbaraman Mysuru " Today's Collage ends with Quotable Quotes from Bhagavad Gita. The Quotes list is so very long as to make me wonder in the end whether al

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 23, 2020 Monday "We are, what we think" M G Warrier https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/warriersviews/we-are-what-we-think-27962/ (Times of India Reader's Blog) Quotes* for the day: "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates *More Quotes @ F Please don't skip through B and C. Before deleting, kindly glance through 🙏 M G Warrier A Interaction 1) C V Subbaraman Mysuru Quotes from the Ramayana: The first among the quotes attributed to Hanuman to Rama completely brings out the large ocean of TRUTH in a nutshell. As for the roles of men and women in a war: “War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 20, 2020 Friday Collage TRUST DAY, 20112020 This morning, I Googled for "World Trust Day". I was directed to "World Statistics Day, October 20". LoL! Decided to observe November 20 as Collage TRUST DAY. TRUST has a multiplier effect. Give trust, you are left with more. It was about TRUST, Isavasyopanishad said: "Poornasya Poornamadaya Poornamevavasishyate..." 🙏🙏🙏 Remembering Gettysburg Address https://youtu.be/BvA0J_2ZpIQ (November 19, 1863) (Of the People, By the People, For the People) Quotes for the day: "O, fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, There’s a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land." —FROM AN A

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 18, 2020 Wednesday Your daily share of inspiration, writings - by you, for you : Curated by MG Warrier Prayer (Vedic Mantras) (Accessed on November 17, 2020) https://youtu.be/2sj3oss69qg Poetry Caferati Studio begins with a bang! Hope you enjoy. https://youtu.be/Mlld5N9_FbY (More about this at B) Music Tum Bhi Chalo...Hum Bhi Chalein... https://youtu.be/jFFe0SuQCWs (ZaMeer 1975) (Link courtesy: Ramesh Warrier Thiruvananthapuram) Quote* for the day: "Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be

Poetry Group: Reshmy Warrier's Presentation Caferati Studio begins with a bang! Hope you enjoy. https://youtu.be/Mlld5N9_FbY In this Video my daughter Reshmy Warrier's presentation of her two poems(Mannequin and Misfit) come at 11:14 You can tap on the screen and move on to 11:14/ if you opt to watch her presentation.

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 15, 2020 Sunday Your daily share of inspiration, writings - by you, for you : Curated by MG Warrier Real "Collage" of Lights designed by Reshmy Warrier using snapshots of candles and lights in our drawing room yesterday night attached. Quote for the day: "There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go" -Lal Bahadur Shastri Good Morning Due to time constraints, could

1Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 16, 2020 Monday Your daily share of inspiration, writings - by you, for you : Curated by MG Warrier Subhash Chandra Bose (Speech : Tokyo 1943) https://youtu.be/h2jxmiw8jA0 Music https://youtu.be/5CS4nLI2ZX8 (Link courtesy: Ramesh Warrier Thiruvananthapuram) Quote for the day: "I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines.The Very first thing that our future national government

Welcome to Warrier's Daily COLLAGE November 14, 2020 Saturday Your daily share of inspiration, writings - by you, for you : Curated by MG Warrier Children's Day 2020 https://youtu.be/FQRKCpoiiRg HAPPY Deepavali: https://youtu.be/7rjCssl3dEY (Message from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson) Quote for the day: "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one f