Yoginder K Alagh (YK Alagh) (1939-2022) rests. Prof Alagh was the Chair of IRMA during 2006-12; Chancellor, Central University of Gujarat; Vice-Chancellor, JNU; co-founder, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. He was also Rajya Sabha MP during 1996-2000 and Minister for Planning in the Government of India during 1996-98. He was the first Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.
The ‘greatest’ Pele (1940-2022), footballer (forward) with 1000+ goals, and three world cups, and Athlete of the Century rests too. Only Maradona and Messi may have come nearer to his level of performance/brilliance.
CoVID surges. Deaths surge. In China, and elsewhere. Its influence on India is expected to be minimal. Peak is envisaged towards the end of January. Let us be careful and watchful.
E-purchases are going up. It will touch 2 digits soon. Do the neighbourhood kirana/provision/retail/ buddy shops survive? Are we seeing a reduction in the length of the supply chain? Are we seeing the shops doubling up in buying the produce/products/services locally and aggregate on one hand, and retail the produce/products/services on the other? Are we going to see more input-output shops/enterprises? Are we also going to see more small local value-addition enterprises locally at the producer end or at the consumer end?
Gandhi famously said – It is not good for us to worship an individual. Only an ideal or a principle can be worshipped. Are we missing this point? Can we imagine any one of us knowing everything, seeing everything, thinking for everyone, doing anything and everything? Then, don’t we need participatory bottom-up planning, tracking and decision-making processes? How do we build them? How do we build this culture? Even if this means a compromise on growth a bit and for a while? How do we see reality clearly and fully, and decide and act on that basis?
A thought: If numbers are there, infinite numbers are there, then a mind that contains them must be infinite. A mind that contains infinite numbers may have to be omnipotent. Since the numbers are eternal, this mind has to be eternal, independent of time. Infinite, omnipotent, eternal mind/intellect would mean divinity. God. If Mathematics is existing, God must be existing. If we know how to look for one, we find God everywhere. See Five Proofs of the Existence of God.
Let us see our commitments on our time (all else falls into ‘time’) in 2023 and beyond. They could be in three Blocks/Verticals (come what may agenda, committed to clients agenda, and emerging/opportunity agenda) and two Horizontals (learning, doing). We have 365 days and 14 hours a day coming to 5000 hours. Unfree B2 may take 300 days*8 hours=2400 hours for our living. If we are generous, we may make it 3000 hours. Can we put 1000 hours for free B1? Another 1000 hours for contoured B3? These B1 and B3 produce extraordinary results and consequences. Can we look at 1000 hours for H1 and 4000 hours for H2? H1 makes the action very efficient, effective and sustainable. If we do 10 years of 1000 hours of H1, we evolve into masters. In a chosen area/ portfolio.
For the next few years to come, B2 is the work towards N-movement. Can some clients populate this portfolio? B1 is co-existence – traveling/being on the ground, writing, teaching, visioning, mentoring, mathematics, education, paying back, etc. Reflection Notes. Frameworks and Conversations. Listening to a million voices. 1000 inspirers. 1000 enterprises, collectives, facilitating organizations, and schools. 1000 N-leaders. Cohorts. Becoming a top 5 level Development Consulting Practice team(s). 1000 locations, 1000 flowers. 1000 ways.
B3 is to be discovered, most probably in the N-area. Breakthroughs. Breakdowns. New narratives. New worldviews, paradigm shifts. H2 helps to do B123. But, H1 takes us through doing B123 well, while redefining and nudging B123 as we go forward. Can we get on to H1, scope it, vision it, and plan it now? 10000 hours of H1?
Yes, we can. There is no other way out. Our abilities are limited to do only this. We need to unlearn and learn new. We fail only to learn and co-exist. To live, lead, learn and love. The flow of life, flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of learning and living coexistence co-living co-action in nature – janagyanayoga for 7L.
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