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M G Warrier’s My Page A monthly bulletin from M G Warrier incorporating select published letters/comments/articles (and some stray thoughts based on what he read/saw and wrote during the month). Mailed on the last Sunday of every month. Send your responses and views to mgwarrier@rediffmail.com. Vol 2, No 3, March 2012 M G Warrier, MLR-116-B, Mangalam Lane, Sastamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram-695010(9349319479) Dear Reader Last 8 months I have enjoyed sharing with you my concerns, views and opinion on life around us through these pages. I have received encouraging responses from many of you. If you would like to make this brief or revise the format, do mail back. Regards M G Warrier My Page Editorial Behind the Beautiful Forevers Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics had this to say about the book ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ by Katherine Boo: ‘A triumph…A beautiful account, told through real life stories, of the sorrows an...

Elders’ Day is being observed on October 1. Copied below is an article, edited version of which was published in 2009 in Bepositive, a monthly magazine published by Apollo Group of Hospitals M G Warrier, Mumbai LIVING IN STYLE IN LAST RESORT M G Warrier “Necessity is the mother of invention” This is true not only for scientific and technological research, but for any development in the social and even spiritual area also. In India, perhaps till a couple of decades back, care homes for the aged were a government initiative targeting mainly those below poverty line (there is no hope in sight for getting rid of the need for this line!). And if someone who had enough assets to meet his daily needs thought of going and living in a care home, people would refuse to accept it as a normal behavior. Our social security network through the institution of family and neighborhood interdependence was strong enough to take care of the aged and the invalid as long as they survived. ...

My Page A monthly bulletin from M G Warrier incorporating select published letters/articles (and some stray thoughts based on what he read/saw and wrote during the month). Send your responses and views to mgwarrier@rediffmail.com. Vol 1, No 4, October, 2011 Page One- Letters Letters Pre-audit by CAG (Published on September 10,2011) This refers to the report “Home Ministry to seek CAG audit before award of Rs 30,000-cr deal” (Business Line, September 5). On the face of it, this may look like an extra-cautious government trying to make its processes defect-free at a time when the Anna-effect is haunting it. But a government which was hesitant, intolerant, doubting and critical (not necessarily in that order) while handling ‘outside' participation in drafting the Lokpal Bill is unlikely to have become wiser suddenly. First, the CAG is very much a part of the government and is, therefore, no third party. Trying to get a clean chit from the C...

M G Warrier 2005/1-D, DREAMS COMPLEX LBS Marg BHANDUP (WEST) Mumbai-400078 (Mobile: 09349319479) A selection from my letters published in dailies 1. Bhopal verdict (Hindu, June 9) Coming more than 25 years after the Bhopal tragedy, the trial court judgment delivered on June 7 will remain alive for a long time for several reasons. One, for the constraints faced by trial courts in even deciding the charges for which an accused is to be tried. Two, the delay in giving the judgment. God knows, when the legal process will, finally be over in this case. Three, if one is rich and powerful, it is not difficult to avoid getting charge-sheeted. Four, when death is in hundreds and thousands, no one gets hooked. Five, when the matter is ‘international’, less people bother about what happens to compensation received for deaths and injuries. One wishes, industrial safety norms and legal reforms get some attention from the authorities concerned, at least in the light of such experiences. 2. Interest...