Sunday, June 18, 2017

"Letter from a concerned reader"

One Mr.J.Mathrubootham who identifies himself only as a retired senior executive of a nationalised bank writes a weekly column in The Hindu. It appears in the Sunday Magazine section.

Titled "Letter from a concerned reader", this column justly trivialises what we normally (mis)take as important issues. The writer expresses his humorous thoughts conversationally and interestingly. Inclusion of this weekly contribution is a pleasant surprise from The Hindu which is normally associated with sedate seriousness and staid statements.

This is a double surprise because bankers are considered to be too serious to be concerned with lighter moments of life and flippant observations on those moments.








4 comments:

akji said...

Is he not the Chairman of UCO Bank, involved in scam

akji said...

No he is Margabandhu. Sorry

Anonymous said...

it looks like that the character Mr. Mathrubootham is wholly fictional and is written by someone under this pen-name...

K.R.Srivarahan said...

Mathrubootham may be a pen-name. The writer has described himself / herself as a former employee of Bank of India. It should not be difficult for some interested persons from BOI to identify the writer.It is surprising that the suspense is still on.