366,-day LEAP year, a year of General Elections, is in progress. Manifestos? Election Promises, and Guarantees? Contesting Candidates? Ramaalayam at ‘Rama Janmabhoomi’ Ayodhya. Millions will light Sri Ram Jyothi. Are we hearing promises, demands for Krsnaalayam at ‘Krsna Janmabhoomi’?
WASSAN establishes a Project Management Unit for National Mission for Natural Farming, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.
2025 is the year of cooperatives. A billion co-operators and a million cooperatives. Inclusion and sustainability. Open and free membership/association. Fair share in surpluses. Autonomy. Solidarity. Democracy. Inter-cooperation. Can we collectivize? Cooperate? Be together for better lives and well-being for all? For the last person?
2024 takes – Yaatras, Stays, Conversations, Essays, Cohorts, Fellowships, Apprenticeships, Visioning-Strategic, Field Stations, India 100 plan(s) – forward more vigorously! Relentlessly! Intensely! Restlessness is mounting. Team(s) are emerging. Coalitions, and Partnerships are emerging. Capital and Resources for seeding are getting aggregated. Can these be a set of small, large or hybrid entrepreneurial and support organizations? In a few existing or emerging formal, informal networks, forums, and platforms? More purposeful, meaningful, focused, but flexible, rather than the set of complex chaos, dynamics, and politics? Can we reach to be full trustees of core values of hope, faith, promise, love and coexistence? Increased reach-out and connection to the last person? Higher Quality that keeps our end customers coming back to us often, even for related but new services? Word of mouth spreading our ‘usefulness’? Stamina to persist for getting into the next, next, next orbits? Letting it go with the existing, so that we go into the next, even if empty-handed? Can we establish a niche tailor-like, to be a trusted partner(s), to win the customers to stay with us for a lifetime, and their next generations? Can we be a collective?
A yaatra(s) to the people, to the people working with them, to the organizations that house them, to the governments that offer ecosystems for them. Next 10 years. 1000 days. 10,000 hrs. We would be staying there. We would converse with them. We write. We would have cohorts doing the same. Of fellows, interns, apprentices. Of mentors.
A Field station(s), models for demonstration, evidence, research and learning. For building volunteers, learners, explorers, supporters, entrepreneurs, implementers, associates and co-walkers.
A collective(s) of high-end scaling mentors, leaders, entrepreneurs, talented and experienced professionals across various development themes, young executive leaders, fellows, interns, budding but passionate apprentices. For leading, supporting development, livelihoods, services, businesses, governance in the poverty-vulnerability reduction – prosperity of the poor domain. For studies, analytics, syntheses, and solutions.
A forum/platform(s) for unlearning and learning, mutual support, portfolios of interlocked development-livelihoods efforts. Technologies. Curriculums. Policy frameworks. Agency.
This exploration continues, with commitments being made in a small way, without becoming slaves, without losing essential flexibility. For an end that we always sought. Can we continue this transition? This exploration? Can we be into the next orbits?
Yes, we can. If we find hands and join. If we pool up ‘fuel’ for the escape velocity. If we be, give, and love. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of concentrating on the possibility in nature and people – dhaaranayoga for 7L.
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