Election Results: Mamata to be third time CM in West Bengal, with TMC’s landslide, although she loses Nandigram in a whisker. 213/77. Left, Congress reach almost zero. Stalin to be first time CM in TN, and TN is still largely between DMK-ADMKs. 157/75. Kamal Haasan loses. Left and Vijayan get historic second term in Kerala, and BJP could not open account yet. 99/41. Metro Sridharan loses. BJP keeps Assam. 75/50. Majuli retains Sonowal. Narayanaswami loses Puduchcherri. 8/16. Rangaswami is back.
Tirupati goes to Jagan’s Physiotherapist, Gurumurthy. Nagarjunasagar does not come to Jana Reddy, rewarding Nomula Bhagat, TRS. Eatala Rajender in Telangana is dismissed from Cabinet, on assigned lands related complaints. Hope Governments across act sensitively to complaints.
Prashant Kishore announces quitting poll strategist space.
Alternative political space needs work. A core leadership team and associate teams need to go through a 1000-day tapasya, walking across and listening to people on the ground. Building multitude active animators, support facilitators and change agents. At least a million. National movement at local levels customized to local contexts. Paradigm shift framework for portfolio of agenda across the spectrum. Structures, architecture that visualizes and realizes this.
Alternative Governance Paradigm needs to be demonstrated where such space has been presented with.
Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (amendment) Act 2021 enhances the powers of Lieutenant Governor, to confirm ‘Government means Lieutenant Governor’ and redefine the roles of LG and the elected Government.
CoVID second wave is peaking and peaking. Vaccines are slowly coming in. Oxygen, ventilators, beds are continuing problems. Curfews, Lockdowns are ON, and on their way.
We need sleep. Sound sleep. High quality sleep. Body need to rest. Darkness helps. Fixed timings help. Soothing sounds before sleep help. Supportive surface and ‘sheets’ help. Optimal temperature helps. Aroma helps. Empty stomach may not help. Physical work, exhausting work help. Meditation helps. We need plenty of sleep during CoVID times.
Listening to Ramarao: How do we go on ‘coding’? Don’t we need functionality and readability going hand-in-hand? Will it not reduce time and drudgery? Can’t it be craft? A la writing? Logic to sequence to tasks to subtasks …
The Rural Post, TRP, as articulated by its founding CP Mohan, is a bridge between practitioners and budding managers at IRMA and outside, at to share the praxis. Its one wing can be spearheaded by the students and new Alumni. Its another wing can emerge as a rural development-management leadership-learning platform/channel, so be it.
HDR 2020 seeks global change movement with local and indigenous communities, culture, knowledge, actions, living landscapes, and ecosystems. 25% land in the world is still ‘indigenous land’. ‘Indigenous’ reimage how we need to live together better. Their identities, survival, and prosperity are central to nature-centric living, farming and livelihoods stewardship. Capability for Collective continuance – to thrive well into the future – rooted in intra-inter relationships with life, non-life. Intergenerational journey and wellbeing.
Amidst this understanding, we see ‘global agribusiness co-opting agroecology’ as against the farmers and consumers. This may resist, postpone or prevent the changes in the structures, architectures, mechanisms and systems, our new paradigm seeks in essence. This includes subsidies going out for conventional farming. This includes coming in of local for local in a big way. Increased percent of consumer rupee/dollar. Food-Nutrition-Health Immunity security and sovereignty. For local – farmers, integrated farmers, farm workers, food workers and consumers. It is moving towards fundamental transformation, with more and more small changes in farming, living and consuming levels for better all life, soil and planet health. These are not some select ‘smart’ nuances at business level. It is not greening conventional farming. We need the intensified scaling deep, up, out and impact global movement at local levels. We have to rush.
Satellite data confirm that glaciers are melting faster, reflecting global increase in temperature. Some are disappearing entirely. Sea level is rising. It may accelerate further.
It is in this context, NF needs system changes for universalization, mainstreaming, and not slipping back. Change elements include fine-tuned theory of change, and narrative(s); unfallowing, crop intensity and diversity, integrated farming, landscape; direct benefit transfers for farmers to choose; women; consumers; customized models in local farming-living situations; digital space; input-output architecture; local input adequacy; local value addition; % of consumer rupee; community institutional architecture a la NF Amrit; Research-Knowledge-Learning centre-platforms; curriculums; colourful plates; NF policies at state, national levels; media, social media and dedicated channels; literature, cultural base, books, songs, films, folk lore.
Just heard: Rich Income Reliance man (Rs.75 Crore/year), Prakash Shah Jain and his wife, Nayana, have taken Sanyas.
An appreciation: Monks wear clothes soiled with earth, to feel one with it. Simple living is embedded here.
When are we realizing that we are poor as long as we are in the grip of money, position, glory et al?
Nitya Shanti brings this up. Do we need Gurus or Teachers? Or both? Or one combined into one? Can we be our teachers? Can we be our Gurus? Can we find teachers? Can we learn from them? Can we celebrate our teachers? Can we stretch more, even if we keep getting rejected? Can we find the Guru? Can we subject ourselves to questioning our ways, solutions, answers? Can we offer humility? Can we be open to be stripped and start the inner journey? Can we take the puncture of our ego? Can we take compassion and show compassion? Can we celebrate our life, our lives?
Yes, we can. If we exploring, unlearning and learning. If we start readying ourselves. Stretching physically, emotionally, mentally. If we relate intensely with N in, over and around, and all life. If we coexist, flowing in N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of celebrating useful coexistence – jivotsavayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar