Warrier's blog

Surprise Gift 🎁 I participated in a Seven Days Art of Living Basic Course (Sri Sri Ravishankar) some 20 years ago. On the last day of the program, the Course Coordinator asked each participant to answer this question : "Where you will live, once you leave this planet?" Participants were not allowed to share ideas. My answer was : "In whatever remains of my work, good, bad or ugly and in the memories of those who interact with me when I walked here" Remembered this reading Dr Lakshmanan's response on receipt of my book "Open Book of Happy Memories". These are some moments when we forget our regrets about our overstay here. https://youtu.be/nNuLDuPA31E?si=5lsC8hlwtZNTq7F3 Copied below is the content page of my 2023 book. M G Warrier Contents Foreword Chapters 1. A 2021 Housewarming and Some Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. The Missing Krishnamani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ...

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

Heart Lamp : Short stories by Banu Mushtaq WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious lit...

Collage Poetry PARENT'S HOUSE* By Khalil Gibran It's the only house where you can go to dozens of times without an invitation. The only house where you can put the key in the door and enter directly. The house that has loving eyes that stare at the door until they see you. The house which reminds you of your carefree days, stability and your happiness during your childhood. The house in which your presence and look at your mother’s and father’s faces are for you a bliss and your conversation with them is a reward. The house that if you do not go, the hearts of its owners will shrink. The house in which two candles were burnt to light up the world and fill your life with happiness and joy. The house where the dining table is pure for you and has no hypocrisy. The house that if the food time arrives and you don't eat, the hearts of its owners will be broken and annoyed. The house that offers you all the laughs and happiness. Oh Children, find out the value of the...

Book on my table The book on my table brought out by The Hindu Group in March 2025, priced Rs99 is a compilation of articles by experts from multiple countries, including some who have worked with or for USAID, claims to bring readers a unique glimpse into the role of this development organisation and illuminates why the act of crippling USAID will potentially impact millions of vulnerable individuals worldwide. US has come a long way from Kennedy days (when USAID was established) to the present day. The brief 12 articles in 64 pages could become the background notes for future research of a nation which was led by Lincoln to Obama. Warning signals are seldom noticed.

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 ...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, March 23, 2025 UPODGHATHAM : Poothappattu* https://youtu.be/NgJttQYvQRI?si=Ckld8-aZbb_-HVHS "Stage presentation of Edasseri's Malayalam Poem Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday, March 29, 2025. M G Warrier Collage Editorial My message to my friends and relatives have gone through several experiments since 2009 when my daughter Reshmy helped me to start a blog. Now www.warriersblog.com which has since crossed few lakhs views (In 2009 there was only one post at my Blog. Sharing the information for beginners in communication) Today's Collage is focused on poetry through three generations. Starting with Edasserikkavitha. I tried to understand more about Edasseri after observing my RBI colleague and friend Edasseri Madhavan. I learnt more about detachment and focussing on own affairs from him. I was a multi-focussed, diverse person partly owing to circumstances. Opportu...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Holi, March 14, 2025 HAPPY HOLI Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday, March 21, 2025. M G Warrier A Cover Story : Significance of Holi https://youtu.be/NSHHIqJ7OTk?si=JuakxrsNEmFDJ7o8 B Who Wrote Mahabharata? https://www.ganapatibappa.com/vyasa-mahabharata-story-written-by-ganapati-bappa/ This is an interesting illustrative story worth pondering over. Remembered today in a different context. I am amazed to think about the interconnection of mythological tales. The pencil used by Ganapathy to write Mahabharata dictated by Vyasa. Thereafter the character has only one dantha left (to be known as ekadanta). Poor Ganapathy had earlier undergone a head transplant surgery successfully carried out by his mother Parvathy. That's another story. C Collage in Classroom Science Behind Holi https://ncsm.gov.in/resources/blog/science-behind-holi-the-festival-of-colours Holi, the festiva...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, March 9, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week. M G Warrier A Cover Story Are doctors entirely to blame?* Many of my readers complain that I do not point out the deficiencies and faults of doctors that they feel is behind the mess. I do not agree to the extent of the popular perception because I envisage the role of the system in shaping them. The doctor traditionally became a part of modern medicine because she or he wanted to genuinely help people. Disease had become a part and parcel of society (thanks to the extensive more than a century old small pox vaccine campaign that has a list of 62 adverse effects associated with it), and people were moved enough to study medicine and do their bit to alleviate pain and suffering. Modern medicine appealed to the heart because it offered an easy way out. Just diagnose a disease based upon a classification of symptoms and prescribe medicines to cure it...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Happy Birthday To My Daughter Reshmy who made this Collage possible A Book Release The Eternal Shore : A Heartfelt Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal in Coastal Kerala By Reshmy Warrier https://amzn.in/d/dOslIfC Kindle Edition available @Amazon.in. Print edition of the book is available in India at https://store.pothi.com/book/reshmy-warrier-eternal-shore/ Amazon Book overview Don’t Miss the Captivating New Novella by Reshmy Warrier! In the tranquil coastal village of Neeravaram, Kerala, where golden sands meet swaying coconut palms, Maya embarks on a deeply emotional journey of self-discovery, love, and healing. Her life is forever shaped by Appu, her childhood friend turned devoted companion, whose unwavering presence has defined her past in ways she never expected. When fate draws her back to Neeravaram, Maya is forced to confront the choices that led her away—and the man who never left. As she rebuil...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Tuesday, March 4, 2025 🙏 Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. M G Warrier A Information Hackers* "Dear All, There is a widespread attempt to hack Whatsapp and subsequently request for money from their contact. It is requested not to share OTP / code to any known or unknown contact over Whatsapp or send money based on a Whatsapp request to anyone. Please alert others in Whatsapp groups." *Edited version of a message received from Cyber Security and IT Risk Group, RBI, Mumbai B Nostalgia Enigma of Arrival https://www.warriersblog.com/2013/03/nostalgia-enigma-of-arrival.html C Cover Story : "When the crows cry" By Mini Krishnan (The Hindu Open Page, February 23, 2025) "A murder of crows" is a collective noun that refers to a group of crows. You knew that, isn't it? I learnt it yesterday. I have read Mini Krishnan's shorts like this earlier also in mainstream n...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, February 23, 2025 🙏 Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. M G Warrier A Remaining active Watched a video clip in which a young lady introduced her 94 years old aunt from Thalassery who opted painting as a hobby around her middle age During the pandemic I wrote about "Knowing when to stop and make a new beginning" : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/warriersviews/knowing-when-to-stop-and-make-a-new-beginning-30305/ Then, the focus was on the first half of the title. Yes, it's important to know when to stop. In Malayalam there is a saying which means "One should stop singing when ones voice is best". But the suggestion that one should know when to stop doesn't mean that discontinuing an activity for which one is no more suitable for any reason should be the end of active life for the person. First let's discuss hobbies. Like painting, knitting, drawing, gard...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, February 16, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having birthday during this week. Best Wishes & Regards 🙏 A Cover Story PERMANENT ADDRESS* (Written by Javed Akhtar who celebrated his 80th Birthday) Our Joint family home housed 14 of us from age 5 to 95 years. Today, I watch both the houses abandoned and nature taking over the garden my mother used to tend for hours every day. The Jamun, the Drumstick, a few Ashok, Neem and Peepal have survived, but all beauty is both transient and fragile, and the law of entropy is powerful. The lovely flowers of myriad colors are all gone. I wonder what happened to the peacock family that came every day and ate from my moms hand. The Bulbul, the sparrows, the parrots, spotted flycatchers, Cuckoos, a huge troop of monkeys that once in a month would upset the order of the place. Once People leave, a Home becomes a House. Initially, I didn’t feel like selling, and now I don’t feel lik...