Sitaram Yechury, 72, rests. Succumbed to pneumonia. Chief/General Secretary, Community Party of India (Marxist), CPM, for 10 years by now. 50 years in politics. A Telugu from Chennai, All Saints, Stephen’s, JNU. All India first ranker in CBSE. Rajya Sabha MP for 12 years. Left Hand Drive, a fortnightly column. Edited, People’s Democracy, fortnightly, for 20 years. His books include: Socialism in a Changing World; Communalism vs Secularism. His edited books include: People’s Dairy of Freedom Struggle; The Great Revolt – A Left Appraisal. Survived by wife, Seema Chisti; daughter, Akhila; son, Danish.
Port Blair is now Shri Vijaya Puram. Earlier Durbar Hall of Rashtra Pati Bhavan became Ganatantra Mandap, and Ashok Hall became Ashok Mandap.
Worrying statistics: 50% of the workforce of India is linked to food and land systems; 50% of the population in India faces chronic health issues; 50% adults in India lead inactive lifestyles; 30% land of India is degraded to some degree (total land in India is 330M Ha). Interestingly, the majority of land is owned by the Governments. The solution is to go the N-way. Increasing Diversity, Carbon, Water, with more incomes, inclusive equity. Leading to better food-nutrition-health, resilience, soil-climate-eco-restoration, wellbeing, equity, growth. By investing in transformation, policy in sync, budgetary support, local models-value-chains-enterprises-food systems, curriculum changes, tribal-rural-urban-emerging markets et al.
India’s GDP is mostly from family-owned businesses/enterprises. 75%+. Top performers have: core operational excellence; effective transition to nextGen (slowly with multiple generational transition, the performance to lower levels significantly); diversified de-risked portfolio, away from non-adjacent sectors (as they move from emerging to scaling to at scale); attracting, nurturing and retaining best talent, culture; robust governance, with right balance, succession planning, and transitioning from executive to board member. Can we take our millions of entrepreneurs and their enterprises into higher gear? Should we skill them? Resource them? Handhold, mentor them? Change vehicle(s), add new vehicles? Add new hands hand-in-hand?
Can we tolerate inefficiencies, mediocrity, pain, hassles in this volatile uncertain complex ambiguous VUCA world? It may be ideal to live with some level of this. If we want to function in this world, do we need to adjust? Swalpa adjustment. If we cannot stand ‘nonsense’, we may not hold a job. Others may call us rejects. We may not fit in. If this inefficiency, mediocrity is ubiquitous, our question may have to be ‘how do we put up with this, at least up to some optimal level’ so that we can still work, live in a messy imperfect VUCA world? Where does this optimum stand? May change from situation to situation, community to community, person to person. Then, is it not unrealistic to be totally intolerant to nonsense? Can we coexist, live, lead, learn, care, thrive with this? Can we endure going through this insanity? Can we wade through ‘nothing works, wild emotions, high multiple confusions’? Can we accept an optimal level of these hassles? Can we embrace? In our log frames, result matrices. Not copy-pastes. Can we keep tracking, to course correct, change track, improve portfolio(s)?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we flow together moving towards sea(s). In N? sanghayoga for 7L.
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