Warrier's Collage on Sunday June 8, 2025

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 read the story of an elderly person staying alone in his house subscribing for a newspaper to ensure that if he doesn't wake up and open the door any day, those around will come to know within 24 hours. The arrangement with the newspaper boy with whom he had shared his contact numbers was, when he arrives with the newspaper and rings the bell, if there was no response, he should alert the contact persons in the order of priority in the list given. Mrs Nedungadi (Name changed) in her eighties, who stayed alone in her house after the demise of her husband had another arrangement with her next door neighbour. Early morning, immediately after getting up, she will open a particular window. If the neighbour found the particular window closed after 7 a m any day, she should visit the house and wake up Mrs Nedungadi. Back to newspapers. During the last few years of my service, my employer arranged free supply of a couple of newspapers at my doorstep. Habits remain with us irrespective of our employment status. So, post-retirement I continued to subscribe for two or three daily newspapers. They helped me cultivate the hobby I selected for timepass after being jobless. Hobby was responding in the media and writing articles on current affairs. Thus, I have a couple of thousands of published LTTEs (Letters To The Editor) and several articles published in newspapers and magazines. Some of them I have included in the books published. B Corruption Demand & Supply of Corruption in India : Bimal Jalan I started writing about corruption with this article in moneylife.in : https://www.moneylife.in/article/eradicating-corruption-power-to-the-people/28742.html This was in 2012. Two years earlier to that Dr Bimal Jalan wrote the following article on "Demand and Supply of Corruption..." in Business Standard : https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/bimal-jalan-demand-and-supply-of-corruption-in-india-110112700028_1.html Overall, the magnitude of corruption has come down during the last 12 years. That's my perception. Direct Benefits Transfer, GST, Demonetisation and efforts to discourage under the table cash transactions and many other measures have contributed to reduction in corruption. Corrupt who went abroad are not able to come back so soon. C Collage Books "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 K. S. Ramanathan, founder of the Brahma Vidya Mission in Mumbai. The author herself completed this course under the guidance of her guru, Justice M. L. Dudhat. A sincere and dedicated practise of the Eight Breathing Exercises, along with their respective Affirmations, can result in: enhancement of creative potential increased levels of calmness improved health and higher energy levels achievement of personal goals in an effortless manner. The course provides one with all the necessary steps required to achieve mastery of one`s life across all dimensions. I had occasion to go through "The Eight Spiritual Breaths" by Santhosh Sachdeva when I was reading the manuscript of the Malayalam translation of the book by Shyamala Mohan. The Eight Spiritual Breaths is intended to serve as a guide to aspirants on the spiritual path and enable an increased and better understanding of who we are, and why we are here. The aim is to achieve this goal by improving our concentration on our breathing and making positive assertions and affirmations. Perhaps, the strategy is to teach the aspirants to inhale positive energy and exhale accumulated negative thoughts and feelings which prevent acceptance of fresh positive ideas and thoughts. The Amazon Review rightly says that "This book has come at a time when we are now ready to take the challenge and responsibility of our own personal and spiritual growth." M G Warrier D Collage Notes Benjamin Franklin https://benjaminfranklin.yalecollege.yale.edu/about-us/about-benjamin-franklin E Corporate Social Responsibility* https://www.warriersblog.com/2013/07/corporate-social-responsibility.html?m=0 *A write-up published in Dignity Dialogue in 2013