Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Vaikunta Ekadasi.
Winter Solstice. Srinivas Ramanujam’s birthday. Mathematics Day.
Argentina takes the 2022 World FIFA Men’s Football Cup at Qatar, on penalties. Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and Ronaldo are the acknowledged champion players. Messi got the Golden Ball, Mbappe – the Golden Boot, E Martinez – Golden Glove, and E Fernandez – Best young player.
Sadgati to Dr S Parasuraman (1952-2022), Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2004-18). Pro-poor, pro-people. Making a difference. Producing about 1500 professionals a year, across 69 programs, 19 schools, 6 centres and 3 campuses. Will/can more development institutes go this way?
Jammu University, Department of Lifelong Learning, goes for field dominant Masters in Rural Development Management this year. It has just started. Hope they have the conviction and motivation to go all the way as designed. Hope more Universities seed more such courses in the country.
IRMA Consulting has to get seeded soon, to grow as the Consulting Entity in the Development Practice domain. Will IRMA take it forward? Will the competent development practitioner alumni come on board? Will it not make a huge difference to the sector/domain? Will it not add ‘funds’ to IRMA regularly, consistently and substantially?
Life on Earth is closely linked to biology and ecology and this work is inexpensive, inclusive, and faster. It just wants time and energy. Let us give.
It is the time of book fairs/exhibitions. Hyderabad Book Fair just started. Books can be e-read but physical read continues to have its own charm and usefulness. Please continue to persist with physical read. Buy books. Give books. Raise reading rooms, libraries, particularly in the schools and villages. As much as possible in mother tongue. Most of us have to read the best 1000 books, however variedly they are arrived at. Preferably, in the first transition of life; first 20-25 years.
Whatever be our portfolio of business, profession or livelihoods, we need and we can benefit from the generic skills and abilities that include: fast reading; writing; arithmetic; memory; negotiating; selling; articulating; thinking; micro-processing, detailing; listening; ignoring; adopting; improving, nudging; walking away; time management; being positive; speaking before large gatherings; tenacity; investing money; self-control; self-analysis, reflection; learning to learn; understanding others; consistency; asking help; visioning; strategic influencing; concern with impact. All these within the contours of fundamental values/non-negotiables of Hope, Faith, Promise, Love and Co-existence. Can we take language, numbers, logic and biology to all?
Love is not an articulation, it is a behaviour—natural and continuous. Basic trigger is trust, even if it hurts once in a while. We need to balance self and others. We need love, care and friendship going hand-in-hand. This is the magic of co-existence.
Everything is inter-related. All things. All beings. All things and beings. All matter, all energy. All matter and energy. Butterfly flutters and Amazon burns. Our moods affect our breath. Our breathing affects our moods. Moods are affected by food we eat, books we read, music we hear, pictures we see, movies we watch, people we interact with, etc. Brain chemicals and DNA shape our thoughts. Constant thought patterns can change the brain and DNA. It appears – our mind is volatile, will power fragile, and the world distracting, and so on. How do we pursue our vision and path steadily? Is it perseverance? Do we have it in us? No matter what. We need tiny and micro successes that keep adding up to move towards our vision, honouring ourselves, our words, and our lives. We need to invest time, energy and resources for these tiny successes. Relentlessly. Endlessly. Can we?
Yes, we can. Everything in us inter-related. Everything around us is inter-related. We are inter-connected. To live, lead, learn and love. The flow of life, flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of no matter what ways for coexistence, co-living and co-action in nature – sethuyoga for 7L.
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