Polls progress: Phase 6 and 7 campaigns peak now. We assume poll processes, protocols are not against ordinary citizens who want to contest, who want to vote; all support, assistance is readily and easily available. Hope assumptions about complaints, allegations, and murmurs vis-à-vis are not real.
ICICI ex-Chair, and ICICI Bank Founder, CRISIL First Chair, Narayan Vaghul, 88, now rests in peace. Sadgati.
Repaired and resurrected, ‘Manthan’, has received a red carpet world premiere, at the Cannes’ Film Festival this year, after 48 years of its making. Probably the first crowd funded movie about 5 lakh dairy farmers of Gujarat i.e. AMUL’s farmers. Shyam Benegal directed the film, with Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and Mohan Agashe in key roles. 45 days of shooting. Broadly restricted to one location. We were inducted in with the Manthan show. We used Manthan to induct many development workers across the country. In millions by now in India and outside. Can we use the film medium to take development agenda forward? Not just documentaries. Can we crowd fund them? Can Natural farming, living do this?
All of us are making a difference to our world, in our own ways. Further, we could radically change the future by making some tiny changes now, in the present. Can we connect with more, with a smile? Can we converse? Can we compliment, thank? Can we be kind? Can we say kind things behind their backs? Can we stop fearing the end, the death? Can we meditate, reflect? A pulse in the eternity, a drop, an atom, an angel, a mentor, a contagious influencer, and a flow?
Some of us are brilliant, smart, diligent, and hardworking. Most of us are not. It is worsening by the day. Integrity is often compromised. Courage deficit is mounting. Public opinion is manufactured, without necessary rational thought, deep knowledge, authentic experience and sharp intellect. Shared values are diminishing. Means are becoming a casualty. Leadership is coming down to vehicles for persoal good alone rather than the greater collective good, or hybrid personal-collective good. Intellectual honesty is no longer a cherished value. Leaders emerge from winning power structures, manipulations, and deal makings. Wrongly. Not for moral fibre, genius, talent, generosity, potential, and possibilities. Liberal thought leaders succumb to illiberalism. Stagnation. Crises. Can we prevent this slide? Can we build a movement against this?
When 1% earn INR million a year, 10% earn INR 300,000 a year, 90% are earning less than INR 300,000 a year. Indian per capita is about INR 200,000. For the 90%, the per capita income may be 50% of this figure. Is it good enough? Does it meet the basics of survival, living and life essentials? Can we increase this? Can we take it to INR 300,000 in the next 10-15 years for 90%?
How do we go and improve ourselves, create our own brands, our legacy? Can we simplify? Can we understand business, meeting the needs, solving the problems, being accessible and useful to the needy? Can we be outstanding result-givers, articulators? Can we update our vision with current possibilities and challenges? Can we become ready to work on and deliver the vision? Can we sync our insides and our outsides?
Last year in India, 50,000 leadership positions were offered and filled, of which maybe 5% are in the development domain. At least 50 high-end leaders are on the verge of change at any point of time. We trust they are working with a meaningful and useful agenda. For our work, can we build a portfolio, rather than a singular focused activity? Can we diversify our activities, our products and services, our people teams, and our resources? Can we invest in compliance, diligence, transparency, and accountability? We need to be so good that they cannot ignore us. Can we?
Yes, we can. If we lead, follow, coexist, and flow. With intent, agency. In N? In sanghachchatwayoga for 7L.
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