Subhakrit Ugadi. Yugadi. Samvatsaradi. Gudi Padwa. Cheti Chand. Sajibu Nongma Panba. Nyepi. New Year around Summer Equinox.
Srirama Navami.
Chinaveerabhadrudu retires and he is going to dedicate his time to writing, painting. And education, tribal development.
Crises – War continues. Globally, with food prices on the rise, food shortages on the horizon and natural gas likely to be scarce, fertilizer prices are spiralling up. This calls for going fertilizer freeways. Can we go without fertilizer subsidies but direct benefit transfers to farmers? Can we repurpose farm subsidies? Can we find alternatives?
In Pakistan, no-confidence against Imran wins and a new PM is on his way. Srilanka is in a crisis. Foreign debt increased, and money printing increased to cause an economic crisis. Dipped forex reserves, Food, essentials, power and fuel shortages and high inflation. Popular protests and uprising. Ministers resign. Central Bank Governor resigns. Emergency is declared. Rajpakse’s Government loses majority.
HDFC is merging with HDFC Bank, making HDFC Bank the second largest bank in India.
AP goes in for having 26 districts, from the existing 13, with effect from 4 April. Visakha is an urban district now. Vijayawada is in NTR district. Tirupati becomes a district. Annamayya and Satya Sai are also in new districts. Tribal areas have two districts – Parvathipuram Manyam and Alluri Seetharamaraju. It would have been wise to have divided Alluri into two. Distances are too high. Delta gets several districts – East Godavari, West Godavari, Konaseema, Kakinada, Eluru, Krishna, Guntur and Bapatla. Drylands have Prakasam, Nandyal, Kurnool, Anantapur, Kadapa, Annamayya and Chittoor. Another 3-4 districts more would have reduced huge variations in population count, and internal distances to a reasonable level. A round of visit to all districts is warranted, I guess.
AP is also retiring more than half of its ministers and inducting new faces into the cabinet.
Traveling and listening to the ground, it is triggered again. Meeting people and organizations. Can we do this in the latter half of 22 and in 23?
IPCC urges climate action now. The areas of climate action include teleworking, colocationg jobs and housing, digitizing work, smart and shared mobility with reduced demand for land, air, sea movement/traffic. Switching over to renewable energy. Halting deforestation and having more trees. Universalizing natural farming. Substantial Climate fund.
Can we see – progress of humanity as an unending quest for justice, equality, peace, protection of environment and all species and mutually cooperative social relationships, as Bharat Dogra puts it? Aren’t we going the ‘save the earth’ way?
Do we understand Systems Change as a way? Embedded in the programme. Principles – understand needs and assets; engage multiple actors; map the systems and do together; distribute leadership; foster learning culture.
Let us dig deep and understand – as Sagari prods – should we talk only about local value-chains? Are we intervening wrongly in the local governance rights, ways of life, local decisions, and worldviews of people by talking about long value-chains? Do we not need free and prior informed consent? Do we not need Gram Sabha resolutions for these long value-chain markets? Whose data, whose produce, whose wellbeing, whose control and whose decisions? Over technology, data and markets.
Let us coexist usefully. Let us do our bit with utmost devotion and diligence. Let us pay back. Let us have no one in hunger, malnutrition. Let us have no one uninformed. Let them have informed choices.
We survived. We fought our battles. Countless tears, sleepless nights. Lots of soul searching. Let them give way to now. Now is the time to find our magic, find our voice, and find our reasons to keep going, to grow and to evolve. It is not the time to get too tired. Too late. Too old. Let us take small steps with all the love. One moment at a time. Blessed with a will and innate desire. Free. Can we?
Some come and some go. Flux. But some hang on, come what may. But many come into us with a purpose of triggering something within us and they disappear and move on. Do we move on? Do we hang on with ourselves first, while we ask hard questions, dig deep to become whole? Let us find ourselves and our joy in the tears, hurts and suffering in the struggle of finding.
Do we have the humility in us to see our mistakes? Do we have the courage to admit them? Do we have the wisdom to correct them? Can we say ‘we are wrong, we are sorry, we have changed our mind’? Isn’t this growth? Is it not truth, more than a fact, something that needs to be breathed and experienced?
Every one of us has a natural inclination – scientific, logical, spiritual and combinations of these. We may experiment and seek proof; we may seek reasoning and logical interpretation; we may seek experience within and without. Do we realize our inclinations and innate ways? Do we work accordingly?
Yes, we can. If we reflect. If we seek. If we explore. If we practice seeking. If we explore possibilities. If we go deep within. If we invest time, energy, and resources. If we practice seeking humility, courage and wisdom. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of finding ourselves in useful coexistence and co-action – antaragayoga for 7L.
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