Warrier's Friends' Collage, March 26 Part II (March 18, 2026)

Welcome To Warrier's Friends' COLLAGE, March, 2026 Part II (March 18, 2026) A A Vision for future : Dada Vaswani Dada Vaswani - Wikipedia https://share.google/E6g8R2Zg6c8tjoqOY A vision for future - The Economic Times https://share.google/d77xT1xCnDs1DXvER B Part I Media Responses published on March 17, 2026 1) Economic Times Chat Room India's Economic Stabilization Fund This refers to your editorial "Stabilisation Fund Can Be a Shock Absorber" (March 16). The one lakh crore fund proposal has come at the right time. Beyond the functional role as a shock absorber, this fund can become a role model for financial institutions and other organisations prone to internal and external vulnerabilities. Institutions like RBI has built-in reserve systems to absorb unexpected shocks. But the government's own economic stabilisation fund is a concept which needs to be welcomed and encouraged in the interest of public confidence also. A related issue which deserves attention is a system of mapping domestic assets in various forms and accounting them irrespective of their ownership and providing guidance for their productive deployment. M G Warrier Mumbai 2) The Hindu Business Line Letters Americans must wake up This refers to your editorial "Tariff war 2.0" (March 16). Fighting a losing battle can affect the thought process of even a seasoned soldier. Trump is not one. And, he is alone in the crowd. That makes him desperate and he starts opening more war fronts, like filing suits and disturbing peace in other geographies by casual handling of obsolete punitive provisions of tariffs etc. When things backfire, this President has nowhere to get sane advice as he has already created more enemies around him than he can handle. In their own interest, Americans should wake up and restore sanity in governance before it's too late. M G Warrier Mumbai Part II Response not published The Economic Times March 10, 2026 Chat Room Indecent public behaviour This refers to "Why Do MPs Shout Their Heads Off?" (Just In Jest, March 10). This issue deserves more deft handling by the media. A stage has come, when legislative houses across the country are telecasting unruly behaviour in parliament/state legislature/local self government forums in broad day light. The statutory protection inside the house from certain legal provisions is being widely abused. Perhaps the time is opportune to ask a High Level Committee with representatives from all major political parties, Apex Court and a couple of eminent opinion makers is asked to study the need to draft a guidance for disciplined behaviour in legislatures. M G Warrier Mumbai C Guest Column* History India & Iran, two people who called their nation by the same name : Aryavarta & Airyanem Vaejah Before Modi. Before Pezeshkian. Before India. Before Iran. There were two peoples who called their land the same thing. Indians called their land Aryavarta. Iranians called theirs Airyanem Vaejah. Both meant the same thing. Land of the Aryans. Land of the Honourable. They were not neighbours. They were one people, not yet separated. The Sanskrit word for seven is Sapta. In Avestan, the Iranian tongue, it became Hapta. The Sanskrit word for river is Sindhu. In Persian it became Hindu. India is called Sapta-Sindhu in the Vedas. Hapta-Hindu in the Avesta. Hindustan is not an Indian name. Persians gave it to us. 3,000 years before Pakistan was a thought. Our gods were their gods. Varuna became Ahura Mazda. Agni became Atar. Yama became Yima. Sarasvati became Anahita. Soma became Haoma. Garuda became Faravahar. Not coincidence. One civilization. Two branches. And the gods were not just in texts. In Lorestan, Iran, a 3,200-year-old plaque was found. Ganesha. In Iran. 1200 BCE. Shiva's trident appeared on Persian royal coins. Minted by kings. Titled Lord of all the World. In Bandar Abbas, Iran, a Vishnu temple still stands. Krishna's murals are still on its walls. The regime turned it into a museum. They could not erase the paintings. The father of Darius the Great was Hystaspes. He studied under Brahmins in Bharat. He brought that knowledge back to Persia. He gave it to the Magi. Taxila, India's greatest ancient university, had Persian administrators. They debated. They traded. They borrowed. They never invaded each other. Two great civilizations. 3,000 years. Not one war between them. Then came 7th century CE. Islam swept through Persia like fire through dry grass. The Sassanian Empire collapsed in 651 CE. Zoroastrians were hunted. Their fire temples destroyed. Their scholars killed. They ran. They sailed across the Arabian Sea. They landed in Gujarat between 785 and 936 CE. They knocked on India's door. India opened it. No conditions. No conversion demands. Just shelter. They became the Parsis. They brought their sacred flame with them. That flame still burns today. In Udvada, Gujarat. Iranshah Atash Behram. Over 1,000 years. The oldest living fire of Zoroastrianism. Not in Tehran. Not in Shiraz. In Bharat. India saved Persian civilization when Persia could not save itself. That is why one call is enough. That is why the Strait stays open. Modern leaders don't build that kind of trust. Civilizations do. Over 3,000 years. What the Arabs couldn't erase, the British tried to finish. Sanskrit was suppressed. Taxila forgotten. The connection buried. But the flame survived. It always does. *Write up shared by Shri S Thyagarajan, ExRBI in our group.