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, this man is busy transforming lives. How? By turning mill workers into graduates. By making education their stepping stone to a better life. It all started with a simple request. A young girl at his mill once told him – "Appa, I want to study. My parents pulled me out of school because of poverty, but I want to study further." That one sentence changed everything. Instead of giving his workers just a paycheck, he decided to give them a future. He set up a full-fledged education system – right inside the mill. 📌 Four-hour classes after an eight-hour shift. 📌 Classrooms, teachers, a principal, even a yoga course. 📌 All fully funded. No strings attached. And the result? 🚀 24,536 women have earned their 10th, 12th, UG, and PG degrees. 🚀 Many are now nurses, teachers, police officers. 🚀 20 gold medallists from Tamil Nadu Open University this year alone. Now, you’d expect a businessman to worry about attrition. What if these women leave? What about workforce stability? Here’s what KP Ramaswamy says – "I don’t want to keep them in the mill and waste their potential. They are here because of poverty, not by choice. My job is to give them a future, not a cage." And that’s exactly what he does…. They leave. They build careers. And then? They send more girls from their villages to the mill. The cycle continues. This isn’t just a CSR initiative. This is Human Resource Development in its truest sense. At a recent convocation, 350 women received their degrees. And KP Ramaswamy made an unusual request – "If you or your friends can hire them, it will give other girls the hope to study further." Think about it. A man running a multi-crore empire isn’t asking for business. He’s asking for jobs – for his workers. How often do we see this? This story isn’t just about KPR Mills. It’s a lesson in leadership, in corporate ethics, in nation-building. B-Schools should teach this. HR professionals should study this. And the world needs to know this. A story worth spreading. *Story shared by Sharada Nayar Chennai B Philosophers : 4 Jean Paul Sartre In the series Philosophers, so far we have discussed J Krishnamurthy, Bertrand Russell and Dr S Radhakrishnan. Today let's focus on 20th Century Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre : Jean Paul Sartre https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/ Excerpts : "Jean-Paul Sartre First published Sat Mar 26, 2022 Few philosophers have been as famous in their own life-time as Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80). Many thousands of Parisians packed into his public lecture, Existentialism is a Humanism, towards the end of 1945 and the culmination of World War 2. That lecture offered an accessible version of his difficult treatise, Being and Nothingness (1943), which had been published two years earlier, and it also responded to contemporary Marxist and Christian critics of Sartre’s “existentialism”. Sartre was much more than just a traditional academic philosopher, however, and this begins to explain his renown. He also wrote highly influential works of literature, inflected by philosophical concerns, like Nausea (1938), The Roads to Freedom trilogy (1945–49), and plays like No Exit (1947), Flies (1947), and Dirty Hands (1948), to name just a few. He founded and co-edited Les Temps Modernes and mobilised various forms of political protest and action. In short, he was a celebrity and public intellectual par excellence, especially in the period after Liberation through to the early 1960s." C Books By M G Warrier If you have purchased any of my books from Amazon please favour me with an online review. This will help the book to get attention. Open Book of Happy Memories : ( and Other Stories ) : Published in 2023 https://amzn.in/d/gdqBaMx Other books available @Amazon : 1) Restoring Trust in Governance : India's 2020's Challenge https://amzn.in/d/dCEfzls 2) Chasing Inclusive Growth: Reforms for Financial Inclusion : https://amzn.in/d/j0CPgUX 3) India's Decade of Reforms India's Decade of Reforms : Reserve Bank of India at Central Stage https://amzn.in/d/8R4SGXD D Media Response The Editor The Hindu Business Line Letters February 7, 2025 Understanding Trump* This refers to the brief piece "Trump's Gaza outrage" (HBL, February 7). Those who are wondering what Trump is upto, may read this. Luckily world outside is aware of Trump's background and the likely chaos he is likely to create before drowning. Gaza outrage is just the fever before the real disease. Those who are aware of the President's skills history will not be surprised with the suggestion of cleaning the ground before building a resort. Jokes apart, let's only hope the inherent survival instincts of the great and oldest democracy will resurface and save the US. M G Warrier Mumbai *This was not published. E Obituary : T R S Iyer We deeply regret to report the sad demise of Shri T R S Iyer in Mullund (Mumbai) on February 7, 2025. He was 81 years old and was ailing for sometime. He had worked in RBI Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram. Iyer was a helpful person with a wide circle of friends. He was always in 'smiles'. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and their children. Heartfelt Condolences to the bereaved family and Prayers 🙏 Shri TRS and I were together in Central RPCD. His presence brought happiness anywhere he moved in. We met him last year. When close friends of our own age leave, it's difficult to express our feelings. Now I understand what my father's close friend said when I went to him to convey my father's demise in 1979. He said : "Now I'll remember him in prayers everyday 🙏" M G Warrier (With inputs from P P Ramachandran) F Kumbh Mela A different view By Khalid Umar(a Pakistani journalist)* THE BIGGEST GATHERING OF HUMANITY ON THE PLANET EARTH IS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS GATHERING OF HINDUS It's pure joy and ecstasy. NO ANIMAL Sacrifices, NO BLOODSHED, NO UNIFORM, NO VIOLENCE, NO POLITICS, NO CONVERSIONS, NO SECTS, NO SEGREGATION, NO TRADE, NO BUSINESS. IT'S HINDUISM. Nowhere else HUMANS ever congregate(d) for a single event in such a number; be that religious, sports, war, funeral or festivity. It's always been the KUMBH mela and this year it's Maha Kumbh, which is celebrated every 144 years. The world looks with awe at the statistics; 400 million people over 44 days, over 15 million taking the holy dip on the first day, a temporary city across 4,000 hectares, 150,000 tents, 3,000 kitchens, 145,000 restrooms, with 40,000 security personnel, 2,700 AI-enabled cameras, etc. These are mind boggling statistics but is not what makes me wonder. MY AWE IS NOT ABOUT MATERIALISM, STATISTICS OR PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THIS EVENT. It's not about what our eyes can see. It's not about size or numbers. What amazes me is (what we call ancient) knowledge of the humanity's connection with the universe. It amazes me that its rituals are performed with reference to the alignment, positioning and timing of the celestial bodies in the heavens signifying human relationship with the Cosmos and its physical and spiritual effect on human destiny and future. It has no power structure or political polity driving it. It's indigenous to the faith. It's not about an organised religion. It's not about a hierarchy. This Hindu Dharma's understanding of the humanity's relationship with the universe, from vegetation (under our feet) to the stars (in the milky way) is an evidence of the advanced knowledge in Hinduism which has extraterrestrial roots & connections. The meditating Sadhus’ consciousness is able to reach frontiers beyond space & time. It breaks the illusion of duality of me & the universe. BEYOND MATERIAL SCIENCE I think today's space travel through rockets is a primitive technology. Our physical bodies are not us. We don't need to physically travel anywhere as once we understand that we are souls having a physical experience, from localised particles, we become infinite, part of the whole, present everywhere, as entangled particles exhibit; distance and time barriers lose existence. When we become pure consciousness; part of the divine light; timeless and formless. It's the awe when Sadhus of Himalayas and Quantum mechanics take a holy dip together in the vast ocean of knowledge. It's not enough to say that Hinduism is aligned with nature. There is no duality; it's nature itself. Being a Hindu is coming back to your natural state. Nature is Hindu!🙏🏼 *Shared by Dr T V Gopalakrishnan