India wins fifth test with England at Oval, and draws test series. Interestingly, Siraj emerged as the bowling leader, not Bumrah. Jadeja, Sundar supported with ball, and bat too. Gill’s first series as captain ends well. His batting total crossed 700 too.
Sadgati, Pramod Kulkarni, 67. Statistics post graduate. IIM Ahmedabad Alum. Co-founding Pradanite. Development worker, social entrepreneur since 1984. Founded and led PRERNA since 80s, and SATHI since 1998. My association with him started when PRERNA’s project on irrigation (lift) on Krishna River for small farmers was the first project we considered in Naandi. It became a model to replicate on scale across. PRERNA was also helping meritorious needy students. His tireless work in SATHI since 1998 for reuniting 99,000 runaway children cleaning railway compartments with their parents is exemplary. He was awarded ‘Amazing Indian’ by Times NOW for his unparalleled life’s work in rehabilitating destitute children. A humble development worker, mentoring several NGOs, including Amulya Jeevan Foundation since its inception. Of late, settled down teaching Mathematics to Government school students.
Sadgati, Dishom Guru Shibu Soren, 81 [11 January 1944 – 4 August 2025]. Leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha; Chief Minister, Jharkhand; Member of Parliament from Dumka, for 20 years. Also, he was Member of Rajya Sabha for a while. He was Union Minister too. His son, Hemant Soren is the Chief Minister of Jharkhand currently.
AMUL India brand is the world’s strongest dairy and food brand since 2024 by Brand Finance. It is the largest FMCG brand in India. Jayen Mehta, MD, GCMMF-Amul India, is now a member on the Cooperatives and Mutuals Leadership Circle CM50, to bring 50 leaders from the world’s largest cooperatives and mutuals to advocate economic models that are likely to accelerate progress on the UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
AI, artificial intelligence. Generative AI. More than machine learning, deep learning. We seem to moving from not knowing; to caring less, ignoring; to resisting; to realizing we cannot ignore; to accepting to work with; to start working with; to learn and practice, to mentor others to use it. For various purposes – learning, research, making notes, documentation, communication, solving problems, logic, algorithms, coding, logical aesthetic presentation, statistics, big data, analysis/analytics, graphics, reports, summaries, robotics, precision work, routinized actions, and so on. Language, linguistic work; interpreting images, videos. Privacy, surveillance, security, intrusion, unauthorized access, misinformation, manipulation, deepfake, propaganda, malicious use, cybercrime, biased decisions, confusion caused by conflicting definitions, wrong simulation models, misunderstanding fairness of various kinds, job losses are big concerns, while efficiencies, time and drudgery savings could be manifold. AI’s current models and services include ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Open AI, DeepMind. Are we seeing the emergence of AI inequity? Are we, humans, losing control?
Can we learn, practice, master using AI? 10,000 hours. Like learning language, numbers, science, IT. Can we use AI for livelihoods, poverty reduction, development practice? Natural living-farming?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. With universal intelligence. In N? viswamedhayoga for 7L.