User:Sree1959

Sreekrishnan Narayanan

Sreekrishnan Narayanan

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This user is involved in Wikimedians of Kerala user group.

Welcome to my User Page. My name is Sreekrishnan Narayanan and I reside in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. I worked for the general insurance industry in India (Salem, Coimbatore, and Chennai in Tamil Nadu) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) for nearly thirty-six years, and retired from active service in 2021. Though I have been associated with Wikipedia since 2010, my contributions were insignificant until my retirement. I got an opportunity to attend the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Tamil Wikipedia as a delegate. This event was held at the Tamil University, Thanjavur, on the 24th of September 2023, rekindling my passion to contribute as much as I could.

Wikimedia, through its mission involving crowd-sourcing of information, has been promoting education and spreading knowledge, a noble service to humanity. This pride can be seen glowing on the face of every Wikimedian. As I see it, Wikipedia is a treasure of knowledge, wide open to the public. The abundance of information one can retrieve from an open-source repository is no mean achievement. The concept reminds me of a proverb about knowledge, reproduced below.

न चोरहार्यं न च राजहार्यं ।
न भ्रातृभाज्यं न च भारकारि ।
व्यये कृते वर्धते नित्यम् ।
विद्याधनम् सर्वे धनात् प्रधानम् ।।

Meaning: Education is the best wealth of all. No one can steal it; no King can seize it. It is not distributed among brothers and is not burdensome. It keeps ever increasing. When one shares, it expands!