My Silver story

My silver story: 

Back in 1970s and 1980s I was handling Product Engineering job in General Electric USA Housewares plant in Jurong Singapore. We were supply assemblies to our plant in Allentown town , Pennsylvania state, USA. We have been using considerable amount of silver in each sub assembly we were building for our USA plant. In 1980, average silver price was ,USD 5 per tr.oz. Hunt brothers in USA using borrowed funds cornered the global silver all inventories. The silver price shoot up to 50 USD per tr.oz in very short time. As the Product Engineer responsible, I was tasked to reduce the silver usage in my product line assemblies. That 1980 was a hectic year for me to make reduced silver samples, put them through at least 10000 cycles switch tastings. Submit report to my USA plant Engineers, who have to convince the USA safety board underwriters lab permissions for lower silver contact sizes. On their approvals make drawing changes and implemented in production in Singapore plant the reduced silver contacts. Using a base of 10 USD per tr.oz, we had saved USD 300,000 that and in future years. I was judged the top plant contributor of design and planning changes that 1980 in Singapore plant . Since then my association with Silver had been there until last Friday when it hit USD 64.65 per tr.oz. after price drop it settled in USD 61.92 last Friday night in New York trading. After some profit taking, silver has good potential to go above USD 100 per tr.oz in mid 2026. Some claim it can go much higher 200 and above due short supply of silver conditions. Come January 3926, China is banning export of silver. Industrial use of silver is still exploding. Worth following up silver movement. Commercial astrological linkage is combination of Venus and Mars by Jupiter aspect. 

Good luck, 

C N Nachiappan 

14.12.2025, 

Singapore.

The Quick Summary

 C N NACHIAPPAN, SINGAPORE:

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam - Simple English Explanations by C. N. Nachiappan

Project Purpose: To provide simple English explanations of the Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam (1000 divine Sanskrit  names of Goddess Lalithambika) and to be accessible to Globally English-speaking audiences, including Singapore Primary 4 students.

Background:

Composed by the 8 Vak Devis to describe the goddess’s glories and compassion.  

Taught by Lord Hayagriva to Sage Agastya.  

Baskar Araya’s Sanskrit commentary is considered authoritative.

Motivation: The author (C.N. Nachiappan), a Nagarathar or a Chettiar (non-Brahmin), has recited these divine Goddess  names since 1977 and wanted to share his understanding with fellow citizens and friends alike

Additionally, these 1000 divine names explanations earlier had been done in all indian Regional languages like Tamil, Malayam, Kanada, Telegu, Oriya, Maharastrian and Hindi. There is no known explanations in simple English language to reach most of the English speaking Singaporeans and to even  at Primary 4 level students in Singapore, and all English speaking people, all over global , where other religious people can  have opportunities to read and understand world's oldest Sanskrit based Hindu religious concepts. One of the key benefits in reciting and understanding these divine 1000 names, is the ultimate gain of eliminating the rebirth and death cycles for the humans.

Process:  

Started writing on Thai new moon day in January 2020.  

Each name explanation took more than 3 hours (some even took up to 8 hours) and involved research from three sources, drafting, review by a Sanskrit guru in the USA, and blog updates at https://cnnachi.blogspot.com 

Referenced materials include Soundarya Lahari, 93 Slogams Narada Sutra, 15 bija mantra Panchadasi, Sri Vidya,  100 songs Abirami Anthathi in Tamil,  Bahavat Gita by Lord Krishna, Concepts from Four Veda and 700 slogamsDevi Mahatmyam on Glories of the Goddess.

Duration & Effort:

The project took 6 years, aided by the COVID-19 lockdown periods, during which the author wrote these explanations daily.

Support System:  

Guidance from a Sanskrit guru based in Virginia, USA and mentorship from Mr. Adikalavan Chettiar, from Malaysia/ Melbourne and other good friends and well wishers.

A WhatsApp group (Shri Lalitha) with 300 plus members provided feedback and encouragement to the author.

Outcome: 

The author can now discuss the meaningscand his understandings any of the 1000 names in depth for over 90 minutes for any devoted audience.

 Future Plans:  

Publish a book with four-color images of the goddess alongside each explanation name articles. 

Seek voluntary contributions to cover high printing costs due to the author's retired status.  

Distribute hard copies to all devotees sincerely interested in understanding the goddess’ Glories and Her compassions.

Author Contact :

C.N. Nachiappan, 

Singapore 

Phone / WhatsApp: +65 91818027