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 sitting in the front passenger seat of the car, holding my Blackberry in my palms. It was morning, and I looked around. Out of the blue, words popped. I titled the poem ‘Commute Capers' B Though I have been writing about anything under the sun during the last twenty years, I have never tried to focus on any particular subject so far. So my reading habit also has been weird. After writing, I checked the meaning of the word "weird". It doesn't exactly convey the thought I wanted to share. This happens to writers including poets, sometimes. And later on, their written words get interpreted in multiple ways. C Who's busy?* Doctor: what's your problem, sir? Husband: Tired of work & routine pressure. Doctor: What is your job, sir? Husband: An accountant in a bank. Doctor: What is your wife's job? Husband: Don't work just as a housewife. Doctor: Who wakes you up and your children and makes breakfast for you and them in the morning? Husband: My wife because she's not working. Doctor: When does your wife wake up and when do you wake up in the morning? Husband: My wife is at 5 in the morning and I am at 7 because she is getting the kids ready for school and making us breakfast. Doctor: Who drives your kids to school? Husband: My wife, she's not working. Doctor: What does your wife do after dropping the children to school? And what do you do? Husband: Returns and prepares lunch, washes clothes and tidy up the house And she waits for the return of her children, she is jobless and does not work. !! And I go to work till 3 pm. Doctor: In the evening when you come back from work, what do you do sir? And what does your wife do ?? Husband: Take a rest after lunch after a hard day's work. My wife: recalls with the children their daily chores and then wakes me up to have tea together. Doctor: What do you do next and what does your wife do in the evening ?? Husband: I browse newspapers, watch TV, and world news. My wife makes dinner for me and the kids then she does the dishes cleans the house and gets the kids ready for bed. Right now, Who needs a psychiatrist You or her sir? And who needs relief from work pressure you or her sir!!!? Is the wife's daily routine from early morning till late night called 'not working'!!!? And without a job!!!? Then you complain about work pressure!!!? *Shared by Vathsala Jayaraman, Chennai in another group