Modi in UN. USA too. The US seems to be saying yes to permanent membership in the Security Council to India. Some cooperation is emerging in climate smart agriculture, innovations, best practices in risk protection and credit et al.
Hope TTD explains delay in action after detection. 2-months is a long period. Hope TTD comes up with a robust quality control system. It can afford it. And devotees would like that assurance.
Will Anna wake us up to going towards a meaningful, useful, cared eco-system of work in general, and in the development practice domain in particular? Especially for the young? Nurturing, inspiring, and mentoring processes. Long hours, painful, boring, tiring, slavery cause stroke, ischemic heart, apart from mental, biological, and social effects. At least 40-50% more. How many hours a week, we need for work? 40, 50, or 60. This leaves at least 40, apart from 70 for self-maintenance hours. Can we include fun, care as part of work? How many days a year, we need work? 250, 260. Are 50 days off a year enough? Or should we say, take off a day a month, apart from holidays? 24-days can be special offs. Should we go for a 5-day or a 6-day week? Can we have a provision for 1-2 days a month work from home too?
Is it OK, for example, to remove greenhouse gases from the air equal to what is being emitted? Is net zero OK? Shouldn’t we talk of reducing emissions, or not emitting at all? Stopping pollution, biodiversity loss. Business-as-usual is not OK. With some penalties paid is not OK. Reduced harm is not enough. We should cause no harm. We should cause no loss. In fact, we should cause benefit, improvement. Net positive. We should not be in greenwashing, when we have breached or are almost near breaching the planetary boundaries. We should be in reversal. We should change the direction of how we live as a planet, society. Our trajectories need to change. For ensuring all of us can meet our needs, rather than a few of us. Needs of our NextGen. Maybe – negative, zero, positive – the stages of transition to. From doing bad, to doing less bad, to doing no bad, to doing good, more good. For a better future, sustainable better future.
Can we offer learning that is experiential, participatory, and practical? Can this sharpen critical thinking, logic, analytics, and language skills? Can it boost intelligence – intellectual, analytic, emotional, social, and spiritual, to navigate in the VUCA world? To be free, independent, and conscious. To face challenges of living and life. Real. To our farm and farmworker families, our weaver, crafts, and other rural artisan families. Peer-led apprenticeships. Immersions, inductions, simulations, individual-group home, field tasks, and assignments. Idiosyncratic, individual specificities to co-variant, group, team, community level realities, and directions. Enterprise, entrepreneurship. Collective action, teamwork, and leadership. Can the learners live journeys, role plays? Can the learners ‘teach’? Can the learners lead? Can the learners develop and demonstrate life models, experiments, and changes? Can the learners plan their way forward? Within a broader framework, outline, guidelines, and norms. Can we build mentors, coaches, guides, and trainers for multiplying 7R-7L-HFPLC facilitators? Unlearning, stripping, blindfolding, snakes-ladders, simulations, immersions, inductions, apprenticing, handholding, and troubleshooting….
Can we facilitate doing, learning and doing more good? Multiplying. Viralizing. Default everywhere.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flow, learn flowing hand-in-hand. In N? Moulikayoga for 7L.
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