Happy New Year 2026

Happy New Year Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Thursday January 1, 2026 Friends Happy New Year to all readers and Happy Birthday to all having Birthday during this month. Collage took a year end holiday. I was following the interaction in the groups which I access and was happy to see the contributions and responses from members. In several ways members are helping and supporting each other and some of the groups have matured into self-supporting forums which work independently even in the absence of Moderators/Group Admins. Read on... Regards M G Warrier A 2025 Quote A Quote with a profound message "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it" -PJ O'ROURKE Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books "Parliament of Whores" and "Give War a Chance" both reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. I have not yet read about him or any of his books yet. Loved reading this quote in The Times of India today. In some way this message was in the back of my mind since my childhood. More later. B Books My 2023 Book : Reviewed in IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Magazine WIMWIAN https://wimwian.iima.ac.in/open-book-of-happy-memories/ C Media The Editor The Economic Times December 30, 2025 Chat Room Map resources, share responsibility This refers to the report "PM Modi to Meet Economists Today, Seek Budget Inputs" (ET, December 30). A couple of thoughts come to mind. First is about mapping nation's entire resources including all assets held by individuals, families and institutions. Until there is a reliable account, allegations about mismanagement and pilferages of unaccounted assets including assets held by temples and other institutions will continue to haunt the governments of the day. Second and equally important measure is, making statutory bodies, PSUs, Corporates and other institutions participate in the development and maintenance of their respective command areas. Local Self Government bodies should ensure providing additional infrastructure and financial support where necessary. These are nothing new. There are working models like Tata companies and charitable institutions like Kottakkal Aryavaidyasala in Kerala which plough back a major portion of surplus profit for development of the townships around their premises. M G Warrier Mumbai D Current Affairs Action carried forward to 2026 : Revisit IndiGo Flight Disruptions M G Warrier The whole episode of the recent IndiGo flight disruptions is being viewed, analysed and interpreted from different angles by different experts depending on individual constituency interests. Initial response from IndiGo was an innocent reaction with an averment that "Disruptions were Not Deliberate" (December 11). We travelled by Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from Calicut on Saturday, December 6. Except for a 3 hours delay due to logistics or technical issues, our journey was normal. While waiting in the airport, because the flight was delayed, IndiGo served us refreshments. But from the moment I reserved the air ticket to the time of landing in Mumbai, my relatives and friends were keeping a track of our well-being and making frequent enquiries as if a patient is in the ICU. Brushing aside a cause for chaos in air travel across the world for several days as not deliberate doesn't make any sense for the real victim, the stranded ticket holder. Someone has to accept responsibility. The current enquiry, hopefully will throw some light on possible measures to avoid repeating a similar situation again. Some questions remain unanswered. Like : 1) It's clear that there has been unmanageable disruption in the IndiGo schedules for a long time now. Why there was no transparent revelation of factual situation to stakeholders? If the changes in crew rostering rules were introduced without the necessary time lag for readjustments, why that aspect is not revealed? 2) Exploiting the situation, some Airlines(not IndiGo) made some quick money by hiking ticket charges exorbitantly. Is there no monitoring and regulatory safeguards for such exploitation? 3) If the system temporarily failed, is there no way out now by forcing wrong-doers to refund the exhorted ticket charges to the customers quickly? If there are grey areas in regulations, the concerned authorities should review the position fast and take quick action to provide relief to the affected air passengers. Perhaps, DGCA can learn a lesson or two from RBI. When drastic changes in the ground rules in the financial sector are thought of, RBI shares draft proposals with stakeholders and while finalising instructions the views of the stakeholders are taken into account. This is a right case where the example of 5 blind men interpreting the elephant by touching and feeling as a pillar, broom and so on. Today someone has come out with a criticism that regulating air fares tantamount to clipping the wings of air travel facilities. Though the observation is in the context of the inquiry into IndiGo failure, the astronomical fair hike was by other operators taking undue advantage of a firefighting situation. Media, political groups, Airlines managements, consumers all took divergent positions without any moderator for the debates that ensured. The primary responsibility should be owned by DGCA as the whole chaos resulted from the mismanagement of issues relating to skilled personnel operating flights. To understand the real reasons one may have to dwell deeper into the HR issues creating stress across government, public sector and corporate institutions including DGCA and all Airlines. The problems did not crop up in a day or a month or few years. The problems originated with organisations starting to depend on outsourced staff, trying to minimise regular employment on own pay rolls. ***. ***. *** E Spirituality AUM https://www.tripurashakti.com/mandukya-upanishad-12-verses-on-aum#:~:text=Those%20Four%20are%20the%20Same,the%20second%20letter%20of%20Om.