The plane crash deaths cross 270. Was it the engine, pilot(s), the ATC, the bird(s), the weather, or anything else?
War situations persist. The Iran-Israel conflict has escalated to direct confrontations. Israel’s several airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities and infrastructure. Israeli missiles’ firing at Iranian military targets. Israel’s large-scale aerial assault operation was codenamed “Operation Rising Lion”. People are dying. Iran’s response with a retaliatory attack on Israeli military bases and other locations across Tel Aviv. People are dying. Where do these end? Who is at fault? Peace, a casualty in the process.
Father. Father’s Day. Honouring father, fatherhood, and paternal bonds-influences. Father, baba, papa, daddy, naanna, thandri, ayya, appa, or pitha – biological, adoptive, putative, step, foster, or social; paternal; male parent; or father-in-law. There are absent, second fathers too; stay-at-home fathers, weekend/holiday fathers too. Child’s sex is determined by the chromosomes of the father. It may be noted that fatherhood, unlike motherhood, is not part of universal declaration of human rights. Then, there are father figures in our lives.
Yes, transition to natural farming, natural living is a long haul. Several years, not months, weeks, or days. We need stamina, staying power, patience and persistence for this. We are clear it works, for farmers, producers; for consumers; and for local value-chain players. The model templates are available, customizable; examples are available locally. Champions, extensionists are available. Articulators are available. Apprenticeship, handholding, troubleshooting, and daily engagement matters. The road is long. The time it takes to traverse is long. It is a continuum on the ground, over 3 to 12 years, and more, in each location. It is customization, local models. De-addiction drives to work on irrational behaviours, decision-making at various levels, based on imaginations, imagined perceptions, guesswork. It could be viral. It could be triggered. It requires removal, may be gradual, of irrational subsidies by the state and market. Changed consumption-nutrition-health behaviours could deepen, scale, stabilize. Local enterprises could trigger these behaviours. Virtuous cycles of consumption-production-consumption emerge. Market and State should stop double tongue articulations. Traceability helps. Digitization helps. Satellites, data without human subjectivity could help. Digital learning, Youtubers, local groups help. Community’s agency, women’s agency on transformation and value-chains including traceability, data help. Government’s extension chipping into this, keeping quiet on ‘chemical’ helps. We need changes in curriculums. In mainstream discourses. Literature. Media, social media. It should get into culture, cultural ethos, campaigns. Are we there? Do we have some small digital, knowledge, human, value-chain, and financial resources it seeks? For changing critical minimum – say 30-60%. In the next 10-20 years in India, and outside. Can we be in these endeavours?
Do we talk, connect in three frequency ranges – chest, middle and head voices? Chest for authority, gravitas. Middle for emotional connection. Head for inspiration and elevation. We get stuck in Chest most often. Can we transcend to Middle and Head? Beyond loud, and slow.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Learning, practicing. In N? sahapreranayoga for 7L.