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Warrier's Collage on Monday February 10, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Monday February 10, 2025 Good Morning This weekend edition of Collage is being issued to share an interesting story (See A) M G Warrier Praise for Without Reserve The journal* launched in 1968, has grown into a 'giant' among in-house magazines, accumulating numerous awards and widespread appreciation over the years. A word about the appropriate mix of content and allocation of space for all age groups. WR team has consistently maintained an approach to retain the family magazine character, for which Without Reserve has been respected by the RBI family for a long time. Shri M G Warrier (Retd.) *RBI's House Magazine A Collage Cover Story* Meet the man with 27,500 daughters That's what they call him – Appa. His real name? KP Ramaswamy. Owner of KPR Mills, Coimbatore. A textile baron by profession. A father figure by choice. While corporate honchos talk about employee retention, cost-cutting, and bottom lines,...

Interaction keeps me going!

Interaction keeps me going I get part of my oxygen from interaction with others. These daily messages, occasional phone calls, meeting with relatives and friends and reading help me remain connected to different sources of oxygen : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/warriersviews/remain-connected-online-49403/ Remembered all this when I was going through the brief response from my Guru C V Subbaraman to "Challenge Yourself" quoted in my message yesterday. He said : "Every human being rises every morning from bed with a vision to strive better than on the previous day with the hope that today will be better than yesterday. Otherwise every day will be depressing. Each morning has in store an opportunity for doing better than yesterday." Thank you, 🙏 CVS Sir. The challenges vary for each individual, each moment. Trump would not have anticipated many of the challenges he has been facing today. I'm just assuming from the speed with which he is tryi...

Speaking Tree : Challenge Yourself

Speaking Tree : Challenge Yourself https://m.economictimes.com/opinion/speaking-tree/challenge-yourself/articleshow/117924281.cms Good Morning Please save this and read at least once this week. You may not find anything new. But chances are, you may find something new to do. If you don't, don't worry, you are comfortable with whatever you are doing. Still, the time I've borrowed from you for reading this will be a worthy investment 🙏 Regards M G Warrier

The Covenant of Water

The Book on my table : The Covenant of Water By Abraham Verghese This 736 page novel came to me from my son Kiran few months back. I'm yet to read. Have glanced through and may, one day, start reading. Perhaps today. My reading is not relevant. I envy people who are able to focus on lot of research before writing. Nowadays, there are many who have taken up writing seriously, and as a passion, like Manu S Pillai (author of Ivory Throne with focus on Travancore) Priced at less than 500 The Covenant of Water spread in 736 pages in small print is a collector's item. The Covenant Of Water : An Oprah's Book Club Selection https://amzn.in/d/1lRomHe Amazon Book Description OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 WINNER OF THE VIKING AWARD FOR FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE 'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It...

Warrier's Collage on Sunday February 2, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, February 2, 2025 : Good Morning I'm aware, many of us are still carrying yesterday's Budget in our minds. So, Collage is not adding to the burden. Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. Happy Birthday and Ayurarogyasaukhyam to C V Subbaraman, Mysuru who celebrated his 91st Birthday on January 29, 2025. 🙏 M G Warrier A Point to ponder : Shared by Vathsala Jayaraman, Chennai A donkey was tied to a tree. One night a ghost cut the rope and released the donkey free. The donkey went and destroyed the crops in an adjacent farmer's land. Infuriated, the farmer's wife shot the donkey and killed it. The donkey's owner was devastated at the loss. In reply, he killed the farmer's wife. Angered by his wife's death, the farmer took a sickle and killed the donkey's owner. The wife of the donkey's owner got so angry that she and her sons set the farmer's house on fire. The farm...

Philosophers : 3 Dr S Radhakrishnan

Philosophers : 3 Dr S Radhakrishnan In the previous two messages covering philosophers, we discussed J Krishnamurthy and Bertrand Russell. Today we are trying to introduce Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan* : https://iep.utm.edu/radhakri/ As an academic, philosopher, and statesman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) was one of the most recognized and influential Indian thinkers in academic circles in the 20th century. Throughout his life and extensive writing career, Radhakrishnan sought to define, defend, and promulgate his religion, a religion he variously identified as Hinduism, Vedanta, and the religion of the Spirit. He sought to demonstrate that his Hinduism was both philosophically coherent and ethically viable. Radhakrishnan’s concern for experience and his extensive knowledge of the Western philosophical and literary traditions has earned him the reputation of being a bridge-builder between India and the West. He often appears to feel at home in the Indian as well as the Wester...

Kazhakam Days

Kazhakam Days Our family (Manakkal in Onchiyam Village) was one of the two families entrusted with Kazhakam duties in Vellikulangara Mahadeva Temple : https://g.co/kgs/Qr9pgvG There was also a Nambissan family sharing the Kazhakam responsibilities in the temple. The Puja responsibilities were with my father's Illam(Kannamkulam Illam, near Payyanur) and one of the members from that family used to stay in a house close to the temple. The third responsibility related to "Vadyam" during Puja and Seeveli (auspicious Pradakshinams after every major Puja during the first half of the day and in the night before closing, with the temple priest performing routine rituals and Marar and Warrier/Nambissan accompanying with Chenda Vadyam and Kuthuvilakku respectively) which was with a Marar family. Kazhakam duties included providing flowers 🌸 and garlands for the Deities in the temple, cleaning premises inside the temple, cleaning Puja and Naivedyam vessels and brass lamps, as also l...

Warrier's Collage on Republic Day 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Republic Day January 26, 2025 President's Message to the Nation on January 26, 1951 : https://youtu.be/gx3MhU88G4w?si=Hcjp7RZDMcNfg6Dg A Tatas move ahead https://www.india.com/business/noel-tata-scripts-history-ratan-tatas-group-becomes-first-indian-brand-to-surpass-us-dollar-30-billion-now-indias-most-valuable-brand-7556757/ B India's First Republic Day https://youtu.be/09mMQwmKmSE?si=Z06_t4Hq93Sf9aTL C The beginning https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm D A Poem By Aditya* (20, Engineering Student, US) Many a time in life, one may feel Betrayed, being left out of the lot. It takes some time and a nerve of steel To pick oneself for another start. Agreed, life isn't a rosy bed. It need not be just terrible but. What you earned for many years now May all go elsewhere. You don't know how. Let me tell you something that I learnt. You may fall anytime; yes you would! As long as you...

Philosophers : 2) Bertrand Russell

Philosophers : 2) Bertrand Russell Starting this series, we remembered Jiddu Krishnamurti. Today let's go to Bertrand Russell M G Warrier Philosophers : 2 Bertrand Russell Introductory Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his championing of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of Gottlob Frege’s predicate calculus (which still forms the basis of most contemporary systems of logic), his theories of definite descriptions, logical atomism and logical types, and his theory of neutral (the view that the world consists of just one type of substance which is neither exclusively mental nor exclusively physical). Russell's philosophy : Write-up shared by Vathsala Jayaraman, Chennai While talking about Bertrand Russel, his views ab...

Philosophers : 1) Jiddu Krishnamurti

Good Morning Collage has a holiday for rest of January 2025. Random messages from me will continue. Regards M G Warrier Philosophy Philosophy is the study of fundamental ideas and issues, such as existence, knowledge, and value. It's a rational and critical inquiry that seeks to understand the world and our place in it. What does philosophy study? Existence: What exists in the world, and what it's like. Knowledge: What we can know about the world, and how we can know it. Reason: How we think and make sense of the world Value: What's good, bad, right, and wrong Mind: How the mind relates to the body. Language: How we use language to communicate. Philosophers 1 J Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy centered on self-awareness, living in the present, and questioning everything. He believed that people could only change the world by changing themselves. Key ideas Truth is a pathless land. Krishnamurti believed that truth is not something that can be attained ...

Warrier's Collage on January 21, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 : Good Morning Coming after a gap of an year, New Year is welcomed by all with some expectation. An interesting year is before us, and this weekend is going to be particularly awesome. For the media and analysts, the Economic Survey on Friday and the Budget next day will give enough homework. M G Warrier A Before more serious subjects engage our minds, let's discuss poetry : Ever wondered, how a poem is born? Let's get available help. Here's Ashok Subramanian explaining the birth of his first poem in 2013 : https://author-ashok.medium.com/poem-review-birth-of-a-poem-7bacd695ed9b Excerpts : I remember the first poem I wrote. The year was 2011. Those were the days when updating one’s status on Facebook was a fad. I wasn’t an exception. It was morning 7'O clock. My parents and brother visited me in Mumbai. I had met them and then gone to the office, hitchhiking a ride in my colleague’s car. I was...

Warrier's Collage on January 19, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, January 19, 2025 : Good Morning Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Today we are discussing "Decluttering The Mind". Like the advertiser says "It may not be possible in one day. But one day you will wonder "I've done it!" Declutter My Mind : Read somewhere, last year Deepavali - this festival of lights, Dedicate, I should, to change my mind sets, Declutter my head of the garbage bags, Diagnose my mind of its symptoms, Drive out all ghosts and goblins, Dust off all prejudices that still persists, Demolish the demon of anger and jealousies, Destroy the giant ego that stubbornly dwells. Deepavali is a time to develop the mind - A Determination to search for the light of divine knowledge. Deal only with the heart that flows like a river of love Dwell only with compassion falling like a waterfall. Sonnet Dr Geeta Radhakrishna Menon Extra Reading htt...

Books published by M G Warrier

My adventures with writing and publishing First time I saw my name in print was when a Malayalam translation of a short Hindi story was published in Mathrubhumi Weekly when I was 12 or 13 years old. My responses were being published in the media since 2003. That was the year I retired from service a little early and my responses in financial newspapers became more frequent. Former DG, SS Tarapore persuaded me to publish my first book putting together all published articles. Actually he wrote the foreword for my first book, Banking, Reforms & Corruption (2014, Sampark, Kolkata. Now available in eBook format as "Chasing Inclusive Growth" Notion Press, Chennai) : https://amzn.in/d/4kquFhk The following 10 years, I published three more books with the help of Notion Press and some more using the free publishing facilities of Kindle Direct Publishing. Relevant search link : M G Warrier https://g.co/kgs/BvVLZCM

Warrier's Collage on Sunday January 12, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, January 12, 2025 Good Morning Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Amazon Book Review Tuesdays with Morrie : Reviewed by M G Warrier https://www.amazon.in/gp/aw/review/0751527378/R1N0G444AG55FN?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dprv_QYDBWBGAT9QX6VKY145P&language=en-IN Excerpts : M G Warrier I crossed 80 last year. I'm a slow reader. I haven't reached reading page 150 of a 200 plus pages book in one week and "Tuesdays with Morrie" helped me post this record and I am celebrating the occasion. Again, usually I read last pages first, even while reading suspense thrillers. As my friend who recommended this Mitch Albom book had given me some idea about this book, I opted to read from page 1 to the last page without scanning pages in between. When I reached half way, I was getting uncomfortable about the story coming to an end. I started reading slower and slower. Why? To know that...

Warrier's Collage on January 5, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, January 5, 2025 : Good Morning Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week 🎈. Last few decades, I have been trying to attract attention to the need for an overhaul of Indian Pension System, reforms in gold management, Universal Healthcare and Poverty Alleviation. Some changes have happened in the recent past. I'm happy to find that the subjects continue to receive attention of opinion makers. Nice Day M G Warrier A The Book on my table Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson [Paperback] Albom, Mitch https://amzn.in/d/ddT5P1o Excerpts from Amazon Review "Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ag...

Live in the present

Live in the present "Live in the present" is a profound advice. But present doesn't exist without past and future. I may be wrong. Omar Khayyam said "Dead Yesterday, Unborn Tomorrow..." Everyone may be right, in the context the statement is made. We dissect and mutilate observations out of context. Let's focus on the present. M G Warrier