45^2. 10^3+10^3+5^2. 9^2*5^2. 3^2^2*5^2. 1965+60. 22 years of amrt kaal now.
K Vijayanand is the new Chief Secretary, Andhra Pradesh. A Santhi Kumari would continue as Chief Secretary in Telangana till April 2025 for sure. Sarada Muraleedharan too would continue as Chief Secretary in Kerala till April 2025 for sure.
India loses the Melbourne Test. Are Rohit, Virat calling it a day in Tests soon?
ISRO completes 99th rocket launch from Satish Dhawan Centre of Sriharikota. Two small spacecraft/ satellites, SpaDex A – Chaser and SpaDex B – Target, have reached the best orbit. Now, they need to be docked. Most probably on 7 Jan. 24 experiments would be conducted in the next few weeks. Expected life is up to 2 years.
Sadgati, Padmabhushan MT Vasudevan Nair, 91 (15 July 1933 – 25 Dec 2024). One of the masters of Indian literature. His 62 books are in the Library of Congress in the US. Screenwriter (54), Film director (7) of Malayalam cinema. Calicut University and Mahatma Gandhi University bestowed Honorary D Litt.
Nobel peace prize awardee, James Earl Carter Jr, Jimmy Carter, 100 [1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024] rests. Longest lived American President. 39th President of US, 1977-81. Kisan, Agribusinessman, Jawan. Human Rights peace activist. Recipient of UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Hoover medal. Carterpuri in India. May his soul rest in peace.
How are we ramping up in 2025 through 2029? We have 1500 days; or 20,000 hours. Can we, maybe by a small team of 5-10-15, dedicate a third of them for reaching out? Can we go, journey to all the states, union territories, 36? All the districts in AP and Telangana, 59; Half the districts outside, 400? A quarter of the mandals in AP and Telangana, 350; 10% blocks outside, 800? 4% GPs in AP and Telangana, 1000; 1% outside, 3000? 1% development/support organizations, 5000? 1% formal collectives, cooperatives, unions, associations, societies (20,000), 0.1% informal collectives (20,000)? 0.01% individuals (100,000), 0.1% development fraternity (20,000)? Other stakeholders, 20,000? Local leaders across domains, 20,000? Directly, offline. 10x indirectly. 100x through a variety of media.
Can we have field-centric participatory handholding-apprenticeship classes at various levels? 100 mentoring mentors, 10,000 hours; 10,000 mentors, 1,000 hours; 5 lakh learning facilitators, 250 hours; 100 lakh local animators, volunteers, leads, 100 hours. Modules, models, examples. Texts, pictures, videos, films, stories, case studies, songs. Can they be engaged daily? Connected online weekly? Met monthly. Xs, whatsApps, blogs, podcasts, video clips, youtube. For the agency of PVM. Leadership. Transformation. Going towards vision, using ladders within and without, building on the base of reality. Tacking, crossing, escaping the snakes, within and without.
Can we have field stations? Surveys? Local yatras? 1000 day-night yatris? Can we have the modus operandi, toolkits, notes, geographic, thematic up-to-date updates ready? Teams, secretariats ready.
Can we do it? Can we persist? Can we pursue it? Can the teams come up, soon?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing. Making choices at intersections. In N? sahitayoga for 7L.
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