Gandhi missed the Nobel Prize in 1948. Nobel Prize missed Gandhi. 1948 list was silent on Peace.
Hummus and Israel. Surgical strikes and retaliations. Promised land. UN settlement. Recognition to Palestina. What next?
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Verra and Gold Standard Carbon Credit Programs allow carbon offsets. Do they offer the reasonable prices to the sequesters? Are they not unfair prices? Do the measurements authentic? Is it free-for-all voluntary market with no rules, really?
What are we concerned, food for all, or nutrition for all? Will the rice and wheat offer nutrition security? Will millets, multiple millets, take bigger proportion in our diets, in our cropping patterns? Some 6000 millet varieties! Can we avail lower GST for millets and millet products? Can we roughly include millets, a third, vegetables, a half, and balance proteins in our diets? Can we remain local, seasonal as much as possible? Can we add fruits and nuts between meals? Can we have meals only during the day? Can we drink water, 3-4 litres – 10-15 glasses a day – 200-300 ml every 60-90 minutes? Can we keep moving around? Getting up and walkng around? Stretches?
Should we take control or should we exercise humility? Second sounds as the way. And it is truthful. We have cognitive limitations. We have debts to others intellectually. Our status is not a function of ‘domination’. Our growth requires others’ active help. Incidentally, humility is linked to learning, achievement and reflective critical thinking, leading to open-mind and receptivity to differing perspectives. It lets us listen to others with different expertise and different lenses, tools and means. How can we avoid succumbing to arrogance stemming from position, power and influence? How can we afford to be humble when we are in competition, intense cut throat competition? Do not we miss resources, possibilities, opportunities? How can we be uncertain, tentative, even if this is the true situation? Do we have an alternative if we are in global challenges, if we are here to build global movements, but to have humility? Can we keep listening? Because our understanding is limited. Our knowledge might be flawed and limited. It is not possible to know everything about the item we want to know. Our solution is no panacea. We need to work on the gaps. Humility means we are risking and it requires the courage to face these risks. We may lose ourselves. We have to go into unknown. We have to relearn. We have to explore inside, outside – knowing, being and doing. Principles versus customized application. Reinforced values – hope, faith, promise, love, coexistence. With open pk+ok+ok+?. With unstopped digging deep, going beyond seeking responses to 7 whys, without ‘asking’. This is the way of trust – humility. Intellectual humility.
Can we learn and practice humility? Yes. Let us poke holes in our ideas; let us list doubts about our work; let us identify gaps and seek ways to fill these gaps. Let us converse more. Let us be fully present in listening. Let us do more homework. Let us take time to react. Let us reflect. Let us see we might not understand this and might be wrong in our interpretation(s).
Can we plan our pathways forward? 366 hours for 10,000 hours. One year for the next 10-15 years into Amrt kaal. Manthan for Amrt in the Amrt kaal. Of the people, by the people, for the people. More democracy, collectivization, communitization, self-help, agency. For poor, vulnerable and marginalized. For livelihoods, poverty reduction and development. LPRD-PVM. For 7L. The Pathways include: (1) travel-converse (2) consult-be available – visioning, plans, capacities; (3) co-work, volunteer – link, influence, support – movements, networks, organizations, schools; (4) write-communicate – literature, framework(s), tools, resources, platforms, facilitators; (5) constituencies of concerned – cultivate, courses; (6) core – team(s), mentors of mentors, leaders, champions, support architecture, learning grounds, field stations; (7) continuity beyond?
Yes, we can. If we coexist. If we add more. If we flow.
The flow of N. For 7L.
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