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LEGENDARY FILM ACTOR PREM NAZIR COMPARES HIMSELF WITH A BANK EMPLOYEE
പ്രേം നസീറിനോട് ഒരു പത്രപ്രവർത്തകൻ ചോദിച്ചു. "അതിസുന്ദരിമാരായ ധാരാളം നടിമാരോടൊപ്പം ശാരീരികമായി ഇഴുകിച്ചേർന്ന് അഭിനയിക്കാൻ അവസരം ലഭിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടല്ലോ. അപ്പോഴൊക്കെ ഇത്രയും സംയമനത്തോടെ പെരുമാറാൻ എങ്ങനെ കഴിഞ്ഞു?"അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ അന്നത്തെ മറുപടി "ആയിരം രൂപയിൽ താഴെ ശമ്പളം വാങ്ങുന്ന ഒരു ബാങ്ക് ജീവനക്കാരന്റെ കൈകളിലൂടെ നിത്യേന ലക്ഷക്കണക്കിന് രൂപയുടെ നോട്ടുകൾ ആണ് കടന്നുപോകുന്നത്. അതെല്ലാം തന്റേതാണെന്ന് വിചാരിച്ചാൽ അയാളുടെ അവസ്ഥ എന്താകും?"
GOVT. MUST ENSURE WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
There was a forward of a newspaper article where CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP A A Rahim was talking to Asad Rehman on Zero Hour Mention on Work-life of Public Sector Banks' Employees.
The response:
Banks at one point were on a single track. Accept deposits and dish out advances. Some advances were usually written off.
As for services, it was collections, money transfers and inward remittances.
Banks have now become financial supermarkets.
It means they have to branch out into domains unexplored.
Transition is from the static to the dynamic.
Add to that the technology upgradation - organic and inorganic.
It's difficult for those from the old school.
Man hates to transit through unfamiliar territory.
It is this conflict that unsettles everyone in the industry.
Add to this the nature of the employees in the Govt Banks. They consider themselves the Govt.
They cannot absorb the shift to the service industry.
Besides all this there is a huge discontent over low wages in comparison with the hours of work bankers are forced to put in
Disgruntlement cascades.
And the politicians long for a bite in the pie - the income the bank employee generates.
Without unrest the politicians cannot survive.
Big tamasha all-round
WE HAVE TO MOVE ON
In India, everyday grind is harsh. Indians have normalised all civic failures because they have no choice.
Indians emigrate because they seek safe roads, high civic responsibility and the basic assurance that a walk on the footpath won't end in a bodybag.
No wonder, the brightest and the best are drawn to low taxes, world class infrastructure and high quality of life. They know very well that life is a game of calculated risks and measurable rewards.
If India wants to build for the future, it must start in the present, at the bottom. It needs to eliminate abject administrative failures and reinstate accountability. It has to spend the tax money on fixing the air Indians breathe and the water they drink. You don't reach anywhere by counting start up millionaires or measuring the size of the economy.
While we benchmark against the world on innumerable parameters, and consider we are exceptional and are on the top, we have to accept that we are tolerating conditions in India that we would never accept abroad or even inside our own gated domains.
Perhaps the most important gap India must bridge is not between itself and developed nations, but between aspiration and everyday behaviour.
Until that gap closes, benchmarking will remain on slides, but deeply disappointing on our streets.
Harsh Goenka and Anjana Menon in Times of India of 12 February 2026
BEING A PARENT THE TOUGHEST
JOB ON EARTH
Priya
Dutt- Roncon tells it makes you constantly worry and judge yourself
Times of India of 12
February 2026 – Neha Bhayana
…………………………………………………………………..
Once kids reach a
certain age you need to let them fly. But it’s extremely difficult to let go.
It makes you very happy when you see them grow and make a life for themselves. However,
when they grow up and move away they take a little bit of your heart with them.
You keep looking at their photographs. When they come for their holidays, it’s
like they have never left. You do the same things for them. You make sure they
eat. They behave like small children when they are back. They wish to be pampered
and have everything done for them.
When you look back you wonder how you brought your children up. You would feel there was some kind of a force out there that supported you all throughout. When you are a working woman, there would be a lot of guilt you have to deal with as you would be forced to leave your children alone and proceed with your job. Here, if your partner does not support you everything would go haywire.
Being a parent is tough because you are nurturing and creating these human beings. Being a parent is a learning journey. You have to instill in the children the right values. .You have to be sure about the values you are imparting upon your children as they are going to grow up with that. You would always be hoping and praying that they would become good human beings. You would have to tell your kids a lot of stories. The stories certainly would stay with them. Please speak to them about their grandparents who had struggled hard at one point of time. You must sit and chat with the kids.
Nobody is perfect. Never expect the children to be perfect. They will make mistakes. It’s only when they make mistakes they would learn. You have to be there as the right guide for them.
Be open with the children. When you become protective, trying to shield the kids from everything, you have to understand they are soon going to be out in the real world. It’s better to prepare them at the earliest.
The examination system that exists today needs to be revamped. It is unfortunate that the undue importance on Class 10 results is stifling the nurturing of the children
Parents should recognize what their kids are really good at instead of forcing them to do something they are not even interested in. The offers that claim to make your child a genius are crazy. Please do not box them into so many little things. It is really sad.
EVANA SURPRISES
US
ON 11TH FEBRUARAY 2026
Mr. John Kurien, Former CGM, NABARD
Our close friend at CSI Christ Church, Palayam, Trivandrum was requested by the senior members of the Church to speak on the composition of the 66 Books in the Bible and the Apocripha. He prepared his discourse in English, where he was well conversant. However, though his Malayalam was good, he didn't have the opportunity to express himself in his mother tongue while he had been on his job, as his career had taken him away from Kerala most of the time.
The elderly were insistent the discourse had to be in Malayalam.
He complied.
Then he had forwarded to me the content in both English and Malayalam.
It was a pleasant surprise.
Both the transcripts were superb in quality.
I commended him for the excellent effort.
The interaction that took place is recorded here.
The brilliance of the great man is in full flow:
..........................
"I wrote in English
Translation to Malayalam on public demand was tough for me"
"It is comprehensive.
I just wonder how you compiled it
If people can't understand or catch on to it, they are nothing but nincompoops
Translation is tough."
"But my question stays."
How could you garner the voluminous data in English first?"
"These are some of the Books and literature available to me termed as APOCRIPHA and PSEUDO EPIGRAPH writings during the 400 year Silent Period between the Old and New Testament Period and detailed studies on the above works are not given importance by the Protestant Churches
The Study and time line of the New Testament Period cannot but desert the above works followed by other denominations and churches of the Chrysendom "
."That's why we consider you the finest genius in our Church"
"I did lot of reading and research from books collected from many persons including Mariam Kochamma whom I visit often and mr.K.S.Simon for Apocripha literature
A fine book I saw yesterday written by Rev.K.John ,prof of old testament in KUTS when I was a boy ,yesterday on the Silent Period of the Bible is yet to be read
I read on varied subjects.,recently concentrating on old mal.fiction 5 books each time from Public Library,which are exchanged every week on Tuesdays when I go to Sowhrdom for Thankam"
"Happy the grey matter is not in the greying mode"
Expressing gratitude, happiness and joy with flowers for your scaffolding, guidance and the creation of space as well as the elevation of an unknown to a summit I always considered insurmountable and unattainable
A NOVICE ACKNOWLEDGES DAVID JOY ACHEN
THE FINEST INDIVIDUAL
HE HAS EVER COME ACROSS
