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:

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

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  2. No he is Margabandhu. Sorry

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  3. Anonymous10:58 AM

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

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  4. 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.

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