Nitya receives Bharat Ratna on behalf of her father, late Dr MS Swaminathan.
Can people’s statements fix up a crime? Do they serve as sufficient evidence?
Tea, Coffee are the beverages most consumed, after water. 5 Billion cups of tea a day. 2.5 Billion cups of coffee. WTC. India is the second largest producer of tea. China is the first. Productivity is coming down. Residues are increasing. Way out is customized climate resilient polycrop mosaic regenerative agriculture with increased biodiversity without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Smallholders are the key in this transformation. Carbon-ecosystem credits should accrue to farm families, and fairly – fairshare and fair prices. And most, as much value-addition as possible locally.
All parties should be mandated to publish ‘binding’ manifestos. All these manifestos should be subjected to independent Feasibility, Viability, Sustainability, Productivity, Equity, and Cost-effectiveness tests before they are published/released. Can this happen? Can they reach voters? Can voters discern them and decide?
Development, Well-being, Happiness, and Freedom – can we have and take charge of this key integrated portfolio? For the poor-vulnerable and marginalized. Can we be there?
Can we see fixed duration – say 3, 5, 7, 10, 15 years — hiring as a norm in all positions of value – politics, bureaucracy, business, industry, and development? Then renewal? Is not life-long hire an outdated norm? Is it possible to hire the appropriate and suitable with ease and comfort, without compromises? Will this work? Can we make it work?
We may not control what is happening, what happens, what will happen. We can always control what we feel and do about what happens to us. We have the freedom. Freedom to choose and respond one way or the other. If we have a ‘why’ to live, we can always find ‘how’ to live. Let us get the ‘why’. The purpose. The meaning. Even if it changes with time, we always have a ‘why’ to live. ‘Why’ drives us. ‘Why’ should drive us.
We provide knowledge, rather access to knowledge, or access to the tools of learning and accessing knowledge, skills and tools. And help people to apply and practice. Our differentiator, then, is the quality. Excellence. The culture of excellence. Anticipating needs. Offering exceeding expectations. Creating lifelong experiences, and memories of coexistence. Flows. Our values – hope, faith, promise, love, and coexistence – have to be lived. No concessions here. Participatory learning and apprenticeship mode has to be ON every minute. Behavioural competencies – Tenacity, Self-control, Strategic influencing, Concern with impact – are a must. Unlearning-learning disposition matters. Data, Tools and Skills can always be taught very quickly. Can we make our services tailor-made, to the extent it works? With care and generosity. Can we lead by example?
Can we be available to our teams? How long? 24×7? Whenever they need us? Can we respond, within a set timeline, to all those who ‘knock’ on us? Can we have a culture of mutual availability? How about an N1000, or an N1M? Serving the world towards N. With 5 geographies, 10 verticals, 20 teams, coexistential hubs, 100 partners, 1000 professionals, champions, researchers, groups, collectives, networks, support organizations, 10000 empanelled associates, resource persons, learning facilitators, villages, enterprises, 100000 producers, prosumers, service providers, 1000000 consumers, experiencers, et al. With Rs. 10 Crore initial equity. Can we have it up in the next 1000-3000 days? Can we build an N-portfolio, living, farming, food system, movement, gurukulam, and learning platform-forum? Can we?
Yes, we can. If we ‘be’, flow with fellow floaters in nature. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of practice living on water, tea, coffee in nature – amrtajeevayoga for 7L.
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