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Gundrampally-Sunkenpally-Veliminedu. My native habitat. Grandparents had come there from Chanduru via Hyderabad. Portfolio of multiple works was practised in our family. Farming, weaving, tailoring, wage work, petty shop, cloth shop, medical shop, tiny processing enterprise, record keeping, documentation, land survey, community health work, priesthood, advocacy, social work, conflict resolution, politics et al. Membership/leadership in collectives – weaving, milk, and agriculture. Membership/leadership in women SHG, Federation. Membership/leadership – associations, government on ground committees. Local government. Political hierarchy. My ‘livelihoods’ exposure, thinking, and grounding happened there. Orientation, knowledge, skills, tools et al. Education is broadly in Gurukulams, beginning in the habitat. Been to school only in class 2, after some tuition till then. Failed, but got promoted to class 3. Topped the class to receive a prize from the father, as chief guest. As I moved from class 3 through class 7, the school started growing at my pace. Recently established Gurukulam – residential school – at Sarvail sent call letters for writing the admission tests to the toppers of the Blocks from all over combined AP. I was topper in the block, but my call letter went into a dustbin in the school. After a few days, the Headmaster, accidentally looking for his papers, noticed the same, and motivated me to go for the test. In the test, I got a good rank, second, I remember, and got admission. Till the results and admission, I needed to spend two months of class 8 in High School at Choutuppal, staying with a muslim family friend. I entered Sarvail Gurukulam in 1976, and later, I moved into APRJC Nagarjuna Sagar, NIT Warangal, IRMA-NDDB Gurukulams, Tribal Communities, and so on. Each movement has been a blessing. These Gurukulams, teachers therein, peers therein, made all the difference. In laying foundational, conceptual, and philosophical grounding. Thereafter, it is only reinforcements and refinements.
Most, 80%, of us are not in the salaried jobs, but in our krshipradhan, enterprise-dominant self-employed world. Only a few of us are salaried, decent. Many of us go for piece work, wage work. Farm-farmworker families. Farms include livestock, fish et al. Service providers to these families. Including petty shops, vendors. Then, weavers, crafts persons, wood-metal workers, tailors, garment workers, together may be referred to as artisans. There are more artisans, working mostly with hands, minds, souls. Knowledge, memory workers. Artists, performers, technicians, scientists, mathematicians, designers, history keepers, story tellers, record keepers, magicians, so on. Artisans are dwindling; poor; with losing dignity. How do we include them in our development discourse? In creating jobs? In having decent livelihoods, living and wellbeing? Can we augment knowledge, skills, tools, resources? Can we collectivize? Can we reduce drudgery? Can we become enterprises? Can we do something else, can they do something else?
Can we pay forward? Can we let ourselves be liberated, released, enlightened? Can we let us know our truth, and articulate? Can we let our journey flow debt-free, within, without? For the joy within, utterance ineffable.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we take all into the flow. In N? prerakyoga for 7L.
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