Concluding part of the story of the Happiness multiplier a term i have coined

THOUGH the hut was reduced to ashes by the fire  poor man's spirit was not shaken and in no time he rebuilt it with renewed vigour and sheer hard work. The boy was the witness to watch  this miracle and he was amazed by the way in which his father reinvented his work ethics and relied on his only capital physical strength ie the labour power.

Having been a witness to the tenacity and inordinate capacity to wotk as also love the humanity the young boy was determined to take his dad as a role model.ie he decided to study well get into a good job and also render service to the society.

His countrymen eventually elevated him to the position position of the President of the country. All these happened on account of a simple smile springing from  the beautiful face of one girl..

PostScript 

This was the story of a 13 year old girl from Barbara Hawk told by Madan in Q &A section Aananda Vikatan dated October 19 1997.

This was an exercise for me in translation.

It was not merely a mechanical translation.. I got into author's frame and mind and added further refinement without wounding or offending the spirit of the write up 

In my original write up at that time i wrote 

Link the story with the spillover effects in open economy macro economics.

After sending voice message to Pàul Raja in London i am completing the blog which i began after returning from morning walk 

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A story read long ago and translated into English.. An example how a happiness multiplier works

A lady gently smiled at a person looking depressed. Rejuvenated by her smile his heart got lightened. Instantly he remembered the timely help rendered to him by his old friend. Reaching home the first thing he did was to write a letter to him thanking his friend profusely.

The said friend who was dining at a restaurant took this letter from his pocket and read again. He was so overwhelmed by the sentimental concern and love expressed there in, he became happy and offered a heavy tips to the bearer.

This served  as an incentive for the server to work harder and for longer hours.Highly impressed with his  work performance the owner of the restaurant came forward  give him a lump sum bonus. As it happened to be his first bonus the bearer decided to share fifty percent of the amount with  his best  lesser privileged friend.

The impoverished friend , propelled by this benevolence  while returning home saw a small puppy trembling with cold under heavy rain. He took  the puppy with  all affectionate concern  and reached his hut.

The same night when the hut got fire the small puppy barked at high pitch and woke up the master and his son

Battery needs to be charged in The Tablet 

To be continued.

we need poet Bharathi's Righteous Anger, the anguished anger part

 As a person i have been disorderly orderly and regularly irregular in going for morning walk.

I see many young and the old people regularly owning the beach for a while every day both in the morning and evening.

Today when i started my scooter it was just drizzling... Had tea at coffee 99 shop and went to beach... Then it started raining heavily. With rain coat covering the head and chest i didn't mind the rest of the body sweetly bathed by the fresh rain water.

I saw many youngsters and some middle aged ones too wearing T shirts labelled a slogan

No to Drugs and say yes to life in Tamil

Casually translated it boils down to this.

We also this kind of Marathon in chennai sometime ago.. But the irony was the gentleman who came as a winner was found later in the last few days with a huge quantity of drugs worth nearly 1000 crores. Different estimates were given say 300 or400 crores. It seems he belongs to the ruling party.

I don't know how many years the law enforcement agencies will take to punish these wrong doers.

It is disgusting and frustratingly irritating that the chief minister of a state or the prime minster of the country have not opened their mouths.

These rulers coming from not good background, soaked in politics of hatred blame the previous regime  not just yesterday  but yesterday 's yesterday regime..

The media  print as also the social side do  not articulate enough to help cultivate awareness as to how to sentence the anti social and anti national elements because they are sprinkled across the parties and the ruling segment is in a privileged position withou being caught and punished immediately.

Marathon running is good.

But it must not be notional

The scoundrels who are in it have no right toindulge in it as if they are 24 carrot gold.

How many youth running are good  honest  and committed to the family and to the country 

Do they know their power and beauty

Do they have any sense of duty and responsibility 

Can they distinguish between reels life  cinema and real life.

Why good leaders like Nallakannu or honest IAS officers kind do not merit any attention 

Why the the judiciary remains a silent spectator or bystander.

Should not they come forward to collar the criminals, the so called crimininalised segment of politicians  bureaucrats and bankers 

People must cultivate poet Bharathi's Righteous Anger.

To be continued 

sorry i have been neglecting my blog writing

For long Facebook consumed my time and i didn't use Tablet and today i have charged it.. Let me confess that i have accumulated a great deal of academic debris and i am weighed down by sheer volume. Today i wrote on UN in order to draw attention to CNA's quote.

I know there are quite a few who do care to see the blog. I must write periodically articulate on varied themes and share my views.

Hope the wise and benevolent destiny will guide and goad me to actively involve in academics  notwithstanding my declaration that on August 6, 2026 i officially i retired from academics.