Bandaru Satyanarayana, Farmer Mentor-Farmer Scientists, at Academy/IGGAARL, succumbs to an accident. Sadgati. Too early to go. Hope his family copes with this sudden loss.
If Akunuri Murali is appointed Telangana Education Commission Chairperson. If he gets the carte blanche, I am sure, Telangana education architecture would undergo metamorphosis and education would reach new heights. Telangana has also appointed Chairpersons for Farmers’ Commission and BC Commission. Kodanda Reddy and Niranjan, respectively.
NABARD’s AgriSureFund with a corpus of Rs.750 Crore would support Agri start-ups, indicatively 85.
Ganesh. Ganeshotsav, Ganesh Chaturthi. Vinayak Chaturthi, and Chaviti. Pillaiyar Chaturthi. Lambodara Piranalu. 2 to 11-day event ending with murti immersion. Typically a clay murti of Ganesh, along with a small turmeric murti. With clay, dissolution in water is smooth. Diversity of leaves are presented. Some say 21. And some say 64. And the diversity of flowers, fruits too. With Tilak, Ganesh Puja, Pandals, Modak and other prasadams. Processions, Immersion, and Laddu sales have become public celebrations, community events. Millions of murtis go into lakes, rivers or seas. Clay has been replaced with plaster of paris, paper, coconut, metals and other materials, despite pleas against this change. The height of murtis is also growing. Some families may only worship paper Ganesh. It contributes and generates large-scale engagement, employment and livelihoods. These 10 days may give 10% of annual income of the poor-vulnerable-marginalized, artisans, artists, and businesses. Idol makers, artisans, patri, grass, flower collectors-petty seasonal vendors, decorators, and food makers – eateries, youth managing pandals – pandal events, volunteers in processions, and of course, the puja priests.
I always wonder: how Shaktas, Ganapatyas, Shaivas, and Vaishnavas evolved and ended up in trinity, Aparajita, aum. How did the ‘god’ of Ganapatyas become the first God of Shaivas, with the main God being Siva? Why did the new commander-in-chief Viswaksena emerge in Vaishnavas? Atheistic Buddhism? Jainsim, Sikhism, Ramakrishna, and Krsna Consciousness? And the sects? Eastern religions? Abrahamic religions? Then, how did all this move in tandem with Dvaita, Advaita, and Visistaadvaita? Nature worship, Animism, Polytheism, Theism, agnosticism, and atheism – can we see the common strand? Universe, sum total of all life, alife; and idiosyncratic life in coexistence?
The UN has become a bystander. Global governance is collapsing, with Economy and Nature in opposite camps. Burden of sustaining nature is on the poor. Humanity is facing an existential crisis. Current paradigm is the cause of this crisis and cannot solve this crisis. We need a new paradigm(s), a global paradigm with localization, customization, collectivization and communitization. New paradigm of nature centricity – farming-living-livelihoods, with equity, inclusion, harmony, and coexistence. New paradigm of solving problems. This Earth is Common Ground. Can we reduce privateness? Can we be ‘we’, rather than ‘I’s? Away from tragedies, into promise. Can we turn the economy into a service of humanity, nature? From serving GDP, greed. From neo-brahmins of knowledge, neo-kshatriyas of power, neo-vaishyas of money, and working together. Can the communities come together?
Can we have the last supper soon? In existing? Can we take our 12^n, n=10 cycles, into a new paradigm?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we nudge our flows to become amrt. In N? navasriyoga for 7L.
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