Nalanda University is back in action, to give knowledge. Monastery turned University, with 10,000 learners (earlier monks), and 2000 aachaaryas, mentors. 5:1 student, teacher ratio. Some 1000-2000 years ago. Aryabhata was its head once upon a time ago. Restoration cost Rs.2000 Crore, to accommodate some 2000 students, in 40 classrooms. Intake every year may be 700-800. A world class institute is in the making again, with the President of India as its Visitor.
In the state and at the centre, Speakers, Deputy speakers, floor leaders etc., are still awaited.
Now it is the turn of the shuffling of bureaucracy. Ministers get their personal staff. Maybe, Ministries and Departments get officers of their choice. Some officers get into looplines. Some will be without posting. Deputations and on-duties get reversed. Some may take talent from outside the system. Advisers, officers on special duty get onboarded. Government organizations, committees et al get Chairs, Executive boards, token boards.
Next 30-40 days are interesting to watch, in the state and at the Centre.
Also, manifestos are looked at to see how they could be delivered. First 100-days activity, action plans emerge. First signatures happen. Budgets unveil direction for the next 5 years in general, and next year in particular. Fault lines start surfacing and becoming visible. Early slips start showing up. We may see some politics, some people’s democracy, some mixed bags. Some rhetoric, some giving-in, some giving-up, some swalpa adjust maadi. Investigations, enquiries, rebuts, and retaliations too. Reform, perform, and deform, all in one. Norm, form too. Welfare, well-being, and agency in some proportions. Centralization, status quo, and decentralization hand-in-hand. Diligence, favours, by the rule, altered rules side-by-side. Visionary, future-ready, going back, and no way back – adjustments. Nothing but power, nothing but people coexist. Power at any cost, People, nextgen at any cost co-flow. Strange bedfellows. Conflicting thought leadership. Luxury and frugality, a strange mix. Truth, Lies, and Deep faking – all in one. Compromises for small wins, but huge failures. Do we get breathers from continual suffocations, frustrations? Are we stuck? Can we be useful really?
How do we achieve scale? Only by the tension between the scaled-up vision and our internal depths and current reality. The tension takes allies, the ladders, from the world to build on this reality and depth. The tension of finding allies to handle – driving away, escaping, making them weak, killing et al – the snakes. The leadership evolves into orchestration, with openness, open sharing to include, expand. Add possibilities. Add exploration. Challenging the status quo for a better tomorrow, for us, for the nextGen. Open leadership may mean vulnerability. So be it. It opens up more opportunities, deeper connectionsconnects, trust-faith. Can we relinquish intellectual rights, or go for open licensing, creative commons? Without quality compromised. We are in the journey, flow. Co-flows. In our resilient, iterative co-flows. Not alone. Useful flows may not be visible flows to begin with. As time progresses, intense useful flows become visible flows, without our deliberate efforts. Therefore, can we just concern ourselves with being in the useful flows, co-flows?
Can we be useful? Can we flow? Can we be together? More and more.
Yes, we can. If we coexist. In the co-flows. In N? In utthanayoga for 7L.
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