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Good Morning May 2025 issue of Business Manager is a tribute to Dr Udai Pareek when his students and colleagues are remembering him in his Birth Centenary Year. Dr Pareek is known as the father of Human Resources Development/Management in India. About him, later. Here's a brief one page article on "The Present and Emerging Future" which appears on page 6 of the current issue of BM on my table. Ever wondered why people take interest in history and archaeology or Space Science and plans for periods much beyond their anticipated Life Span? For example Modiji talking about India in 2047! Read this article. Regards M G Warrier

Heart Lamp : Short stories by Banu Mushtaq WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious lit...

Collage Poetry PARENT'S HOUSE* By Khalil Gibran It's the only house where you can go to dozens of times without an invitation. The only house where you can put the key in the door and enter directly. The house that has loving eyes that stare at the door until they see you. The house which reminds you of your carefree days, stability and your happiness during your childhood. The house in which your presence and look at your mother’s and father’s faces are for you a bliss and your conversation with them is a reward. The house that if you do not go, the hearts of its owners will shrink. The house in which two candles were burnt to light up the world and fill your life with happiness and joy. The house where the dining table is pure for you and has no hypocrisy. The house that if the food time arrives and you don't eat, the hearts of its owners will be broken and annoyed. The house that offers you all the laughs and happiness. Oh Children, find out the value of the...

Book on my table The book on my table brought out by The Hindu Group in March 2025, priced Rs99 is a compilation of articles by experts from multiple countries, including some who have worked with or for USAID, claims to bring readers a unique glimpse into the role of this development organisation and illuminates why the act of crippling USAID will potentially impact millions of vulnerable individuals worldwide. US has come a long way from Kennedy days (when USAID was established) to the present day. The brief 12 articles in 64 pages could become the background notes for future research of a nation which was led by Lincoln to Obama. Warning signals are seldom noticed.

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On May Day, 2025 Friends This brief midweek edition is to recognise the significance of May Day and also to honour those torchbearers who keep the memories of sacrifices that have gone into the evolution of several rights we are enjoying. With Greetings M G Warrier A May Day 2025 https://news24online.com/trending/labour-day-2025-surprising-facts-and-hidden-history-you-probably-didnt-know/546971/ International Labour Day, also called International Worker’s Day. It’s a day to thank and honour workers for their hard work in all kinds of jobs. B Miles to go https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities#:~:text=May%201%20has%20come%20to,for%20an%20eight%2Dhour%20workday. Report from US May 1 has come to be known as International Workers’ Day and has strong ties to Chicago, where the first-ever May Day event was held in 1886 with thousands of workers protesting for an eight-...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 27, 2025 UPODGHATHAM https://youtu.be/Fnr9gif5xXY?si=wjbKdvo6pjJrI6ur NO ONE Could STOP CRYING: 98 YEAR OLD HIROSHIMA SURVIVORS VIOLIN & PIANO DUET SHATTERS EVERYONE He thought she had died. She thought he was gone forever. But after nearly 75 years apart, two survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing — Takeshi Nakamura (94) and Yuriko Sato (93) — reunite to finish the song they wrote together as teenagers, moments before the world around them was torn apart. This is not just a musical performance. It is a living memory — a lullaby for the children who never grew up, a final note for the love that was silenced by war, and a powerful prayer for peace. Their hands may tremble, but their hearts still remember every note, every word left unspoken. A Collage Editorial Friends "There's an old saying* which roughly means : Before doing anything, consider the positive and negative impacts, if you go ahead and t...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 20, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday April 26, 2025. Social media sources are overflowing with advice and suggestions about how you should live your life ❤️. I'm aware of the futility of adding to that by sharing links like the one below at A. In a way, as I said recently, many of us keep our thoughts to ourselves 🙏. We need not research for text book solutions to all our problems. But there is a need to interact and share. We may not be able to follow scriptures the way earlier generations did. But, by sharing thoughts, some new doors may open. M G Warrier A Oprah Winfrey Let go & take rest https://youtu.be/E7i5wcfT9x8?si=-JRS2HnWwKVkj4Gb B https://api-esp.piano.io/-c/585/26078/416717/10445058/882581/dcfaea85924a6ed749fb3bb49583c048/5891/289801944?attrs=0&order=0 The Hindu Frontline shared the above link with me. Hope this opens for you. Rememb...

The Cross : A Powerful Symbol Of Forgiveness Good Friday today. Every Easter Season, we reinforce the memories of Jesus and remember his message. The Times of India article (Speaking Tree, April 18, 2025) focus on the relevance of forgiveness in life. My view is : We should forgive ourselves first. Yes, many of us carry a baggage of regrets and pains from the past, which are irrelevant today. Why not leave them in the first dustbin we see on the way? You will feel much lighter after that, even if you are overweight! Revenge and forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. Till my early seventies I was more revengeful in my thoughts. In some cases I was waiting for an opportunity. Opportunities came. By that time I realised that my target individuals had become frail and weak and no strength left in them to accept the punishment. M G Warrier

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, April 13, 2025 Friends I was in Kerala from April 2 to 9, 2025. Visited some relatives and friends in Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur and attended a wedding on Sunday, April 6, 2025. Tried to meet maximum number of friends and relatives in the available time. At the wedding we attended, I interacted with 3 guests who were 92 plus. None of them were complaining about their own health issues or corruption in government. Their approach to life had changed. They were more practical and happy and contented. We need not wait to reach 90 plus for that changeover. The world outside is different from what we guess, reading WhatsApp messages and watching Media's "Vruthaakandhakshobham" (word borrowed from Shankaracharya). Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Hanuman Jayanti on April 12, 2025 Those who have time and patience, please read Swami Swaroopananda's write up @ Speak...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Thursday, March 27, 2025 Friends As a child, I have watched my grandmother going to a page at random in her prized possession of "Bhagavatam" and reading two lines from the top of the left hand side page that opens, before going to the page where she has kept the marker. Today, before I took up my usual routine reading, I remembered her and opened the pocket edition of Bhagavad Gita and believe me, the right hand page I got was the beginning of Chapter 10 (VibhootiYogah). For the first time, I read the Chapter which has 42 Stanzas, in one sitting. No big deal, you may think. But, I have been always getting more and more impressed by the Jagad Guru's qualities as a teacher. For his Mom, he just opened his mouth to show the Universe, he made his devotee in Guruvayoor (Melpathur) recite "Agre Pashyami..." once he was able to feel His presence and the less intelligent Warrior and Comrade who happened to be related to ...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, March 23, 2025 UPODGHATHAM : Poothappattu* https://youtu.be/NgJttQYvQRI?si=Ckld8-aZbb_-HVHS "Stage presentation of Edasseri's Malayalam Poem Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday, March 29, 2025. M G Warrier Collage Editorial My message to my friends and relatives have gone through several experiments since 2009 when my daughter Reshmy helped me to start a blog. Now www.warriersblog.com which has since crossed few lakhs views (In 2009 there was only one post at my Blog. Sharing the information for beginners in communication) Today's Collage is focused on poetry through three generations. Starting with Edasserikkavitha. I tried to understand more about Edasseri after observing my RBI colleague and friend Edasseri Madhavan. I learnt more about detachment and focussing on own affairs from him. I was a multi-focussed, diverse person partly owing to circumstances. Opportu...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Holi, March 14, 2025 HAPPY HOLI Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during the week ending Saturday, March 21, 2025. M G Warrier A Cover Story : Significance of Holi https://youtu.be/NSHHIqJ7OTk?si=JuakxrsNEmFDJ7o8 B Who Wrote Mahabharata? https://www.ganapatibappa.com/vyasa-mahabharata-story-written-by-ganapati-bappa/ This is an interesting illustrative story worth pondering over. Remembered today in a different context. I am amazed to think about the interconnection of mythological tales. The pencil used by Ganapathy to write Mahabharata dictated by Vyasa. Thereafter the character has only one dantha left (to be known as ekadanta). Poor Ganapathy had earlier undergone a head transplant surgery successfully carried out by his mother Parvathy. That's another story. C Collage in Classroom Science Behind Holi https://ncsm.gov.in/resources/blog/science-behind-holi-the-festival-of-colours Holi, the festiva...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, March 9, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday this week. M G Warrier A Cover Story Are doctors entirely to blame?* Many of my readers complain that I do not point out the deficiencies and faults of doctors that they feel is behind the mess. I do not agree to the extent of the popular perception because I envisage the role of the system in shaping them. The doctor traditionally became a part of modern medicine because she or he wanted to genuinely help people. Disease had become a part and parcel of society (thanks to the extensive more than a century old small pox vaccine campaign that has a list of 62 adverse effects associated with it), and people were moved enough to study medicine and do their bit to alleviate pain and suffering. Modern medicine appealed to the heart because it offered an easy way out. Just diagnose a disease based upon a classification of symptoms and prescribe medicines to cure it...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Happy Birthday To My Daughter Reshmy who made this Collage possible A Book Release The Eternal Shore : A Heartfelt Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal in Coastal Kerala By Reshmy Warrier https://amzn.in/d/dOslIfC Kindle Edition available @Amazon.in. Print edition of the book is available in India at https://store.pothi.com/book/reshmy-warrier-eternal-shore/ Amazon Book overview Don’t Miss the Captivating New Novella by Reshmy Warrier! In the tranquil coastal village of Neeravaram, Kerala, where golden sands meet swaying coconut palms, Maya embarks on a deeply emotional journey of self-discovery, love, and healing. Her life is forever shaped by Appu, her childhood friend turned devoted companion, whose unwavering presence has defined her past in ways she never expected. When fate draws her back to Neeravaram, Maya is forced to confront the choices that led her away—and the man who never left. As she rebuil...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Tuesday, March 4, 2025 🙏 Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. M G Warrier A Information Hackers* "Dear All, There is a widespread attempt to hack Whatsapp and subsequently request for money from their contact. It is requested not to share OTP / code to any known or unknown contact over Whatsapp or send money based on a Whatsapp request to anyone. Please alert others in Whatsapp groups." *Edited version of a message received from Cyber Security and IT Risk Group, RBI, Mumbai B Nostalgia Enigma of Arrival https://www.warriersblog.com/2013/03/nostalgia-enigma-of-arrival.html C Cover Story : "When the crows cry" By Mini Krishnan (The Hindu Open Page, February 23, 2025) "A murder of crows" is a collective noun that refers to a group of crows. You knew that, isn't it? I learnt it yesterday. I have read Mini Krishnan's shorts like this earlier also in mainstream n...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, February 23, 2025 🙏 Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. M G Warrier A Remaining active Watched a video clip in which a young lady introduced her 94 years old aunt from Thalassery who opted painting as a hobby around her middle age During the pandemic I wrote about "Knowing when to stop and make a new beginning" : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/warriersviews/knowing-when-to-stop-and-make-a-new-beginning-30305/ Then, the focus was on the first half of the title. Yes, it's important to know when to stop. In Malayalam there is a saying which means "One should stop singing when ones voice is best". But the suggestion that one should know when to stop doesn't mean that discontinuing an activity for which one is no more suitable for any reason should be the end of active life for the person. First let's discuss hobbies. Like painting, knitting, drawing, gard...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday, February 16, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having birthday during this week. Best Wishes & Regards 🙏 A Cover Story PERMANENT ADDRESS* (Written by Javed Akhtar who celebrated his 80th Birthday) Our Joint family home housed 14 of us from age 5 to 95 years. Today, I watch both the houses abandoned and nature taking over the garden my mother used to tend for hours every day. The Jamun, the Drumstick, a few Ashok, Neem and Peepal have survived, but all beauty is both transient and fragile, and the law of entropy is powerful. The lovely flowers of myriad colors are all gone. I wonder what happened to the peacock family that came every day and ate from my moms hand. The Bulbul, the sparrows, the parrots, spotted flycatchers, Cuckoos, a huge troop of monkeys that once in a month would upset the order of the place. Once People leave, a Home becomes a House. Initially, I didn’t feel like selling, and now I don’t feel lik...

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Wednesday, February 13, 2025 Praise for HAL 🙏 (See C) A Cover Story In Praise Of Masala Dosa* Ask any true masala dosa addict. Making and eating masala dosa is an art. It is an acquired trait. The most important rules to follow… 1. The dosa should be big and uniformly crisp till you finish the last piece. 2. It should retain its shape till the last bit gets over. 3. It should have a slight fermented taste. 4. The filling should be thick enough not to sog the belly of the dosa. 5 Watery chutney or sambar which do not stick to the dosa. There should be a cordial adhesion between them. 6 Soggy or over-thick dosas have nothing to do with masalas. They are only for amateurs who eat dosa with lentil powders or sugar. 7 Wash your hands and eat your dosa with your hands… eating with spoon and fork or fork and knife is a joke on our dosa's pride. 8 Dosas without enough oil poured when getting done is a let-down. Please be lavish in p...

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 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 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 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...

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 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...