Warrier's Friends' Collage April 2026 Part II

Welcome To Warrier's Friends' COLLAGE, April, 2026 Part II (April 15, 2026) A Subhashitham* Don't share too much. Privacy is peaceful and powerful. 2. Even if you trust your friends, relatives and family, don't tell them everything. 3. The best revenge is not to take revenge at all. Move on. Be happy. Find inner peace. Flourish. 4. When you are right, nobody remembers it. When you are wrong, nobody forgets it. 5. If you keep waiting for the right time, you will waste your whole life and nothing will happen. 6. You owe no explanation or justification to anyone. 7. The people who trigger your emotions have power over you. Choose wisely to whom you give that power. 8. Stop reacting to everything and everyone. 9. No one will come to save you because you are perfectly capable of saving yourself. 10. You never get a good image by trying to make someone else's image bad. 11. A false friend is worse than an enemy. 12. Your comfort zone will destroy your dreams. 13. Stop accepting things you don't agree with. 14. Always speak less than necessary. 15. Don't be upset by people you don't respect.. *Shared by Badrinarayanan, ExRBI, Chennai B Select Media Responses 1 The Hindu Business Line BRICS should step up This refers to ‘Iran war, a boon for the BRICS’ (The Hindu Business Line, April 15). The common perception is that the West Asia affairs are not getting the attention they deserve from those in charge of governance and diplomacy at the highest level. The suggestion that BRICS can play a more proactive role in the West Asia affairs has to be welcomed. If international organisations like the UN have largely been silent, regional organisations like the European Union and BRICS need to rise to the occasion and coordinate with nations in the affected regions and help out the people affected by the chaos. In the present situation, India and China have to play a more proactive role, going beyond protecting self-interest. MG Warrier Mumbai 2 The Economic Times March 26, 2026 Chat Room Take a diversion* This refers to the report "LS Approves Finance Bill, Tax Rules Eased" (March 26). Common man is not amused to hear that "this Finance Bill has so much more for the middle class" or "the focus is on easing compliance and cutting litigation". In addition to his own struggles made more strenuous by the side effects of war elsewhere, he feels helpless with no light seen at the end of the tunnel. Unusual situations need off the cuff experiments to find medium term solutions for new problems cropping up every day. The setting up of Price Stabilization Fund is really a comfort. But the need of the hour is diversification of sources of revenue. This will call for immediate mapping of available investible assets and ploughing them into pools which will be available for accessing in times of need. Let's not forget the experience of 1991, when RBI Executives physically carried gold for pledging to borrow small amounts of forex. Like keeping vacant houses tenantable, nation's assets including domestic gold stock should be mainstreamed and refined for making them available for productive deployment in times of need. M G Warrier Mumbai *Published on March 27, 2026 3 Letters Freebies should be eschewed* This refers to your editorial "Freebies unplugged" (HBL, April 7). Freebies to appease voters which initially started in the south decades ago as distribution of assets for self employment (like giving sewing machines) spread across India fast and has crossed all limits to political bidding of the quantum of unconditional cash transfer (UCT) for voting a particular group of political parties to power. Because this is being done by present or future law makers, the blatant non-adherence of statutory requirement of getting expenditure from revenue income voted by legislative authority gets overlooked. Freebies and UCTs act as disincentives for hard work, in the first place. Except in exceptional circumstances like natural calamities or famine the idea of freebies and UCTs should not be encouraged. While in deserving situations interest and price subsidies should be resorted to, as far as possible the concept of giving anything free should be eschewed. All political parties should come together and work towards a national consensus on this. M G Warrier Mumbai *Not published

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