Ugadi. Krodhi Ugadi. Thirty-eighth in sixty year lunar year cycle. Gudi Padwa. New year, spring, after the equinox.
Supreme Court expands the scope of Article 14 and 21 to inlcude ‘right against the advrse effects of climate change’. This includes right to clean environment. Article 21 – right to life and personal liberty. Article 14 – equality. Natural farming, agroecology, regenerative agriculture, address these adverse effects. Thus, this right includes farmers switching to natural, and consumers going natural. State needs to facilitate moving towards this right.
Agriculture is growing at 4% per year. Livestock share is about 40%, horticulture 30%, and fisheries 6%. We have a cereal surplus. Diversification; unfallowing; more cropping intensity, land equivalent ratio, and yields are possible. Costs can come down. Incomes can more than double up.
Can we be direct, brief but clear in our expectations, conclusions, opinions, and values? Can we discuss and argue the philosophy, framework(s) and logic of the same, when and where required? Can we be impatient with agreed day-to-day tasks and be patient with processes, efforts, and results? Can we be conscious of limits of what we know and what we do not know, and be willing to get and appreciate true answers?
Can we invest on working towards addressing root causes, and systems changes, rather than the symptoms? In the champions who are on to this agenda? Clear causal relationship to effort and result is rare and unclear. Linearity may not work. Can we specify, commission and deliver outcomes? Are they not the just tasks, processes, structural-architectural elements, institutions, and champions? Do we understand the needs and conditions of change, customization, collectivization, amplification of voices and agency of the marginalized? We say, discuss, conclude complexity, but end-up in support to linearity, and silos. Can we see clear ‘two tongues’ in us, and move out to one? Can we invest in solution leaders in complete trust? Let us take time to zero in on these authentic, non-fraud champions, achieve shared understanding on their pathways and leave them to go ahead. Can we just invest and support fully, 100%? If we discover they are not authentic, let us dump them and we move on. Let us not count. Let us see the patterns, trends, and changes. Let us give them the free hand. Let us travel with them in thinking, articulation, manoeuvering dynamics and actions. Can we?
We change our ways with breakthrough cognitive, computational, memory, transactional, exchange, economic, social, cultural, and behavioural infratech. When we got fire. When we got agri’culture’. When we got language. When we got ‘God’. When we got atheist Buddha. When we got writing, and printing. Recording. Audio-video-cinema. Automation. Industry. Atomization of material, energy, and time. Aggregation. Kingdoms, Communism, and Democracy. Phone, mobile, smartphone, tablet, laptop, and internet. Artificial, digital way is one such. N-way is another such. This is wave four. It seeks being, living, farming, and consuming in sync with nature; local food, nutrition; handing over agency to people, agency to women, agency to marginalized; communities taking charge; small enterprises and collectives; fair share; primacy of participation; pay back, give back; servant leadership; consensus building; apprenticeship; nurturing; rewarding the services equitably; and inclusion, equity. Can we welcome, cope with, facilitate, and mentor wave four? Can we serve w4? Can we build a w4 movement? Can we? Else w3 crunch would crush us.
Can we love ourselves, our worlds, and our universes? Can we live, lead, link, learn, and love?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing together in nature. In the flow of N. In urmiyoga for 7L.
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