The new FIDE World Women Chess Champion is Divya Deshmukh, 19, winning over Koneru Humpy in the rapid tie-breaker 2. Incidentally, Divya has become a Grand Master with this win, without even having one GM norm before this. She is the fourth Indian woman to become GM.
Earth Overshoot Day, 24 July this year. Indicatively the day on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Conservatively speaking, 2025 requires 1.75 Earths to support humanity’s consumption levels. We need several shifts, catapults, or deep intense consistent nudges. Maybe a Paradigm shift to living, life, natural. Farming naturally. For sustainable soils’ healing; people’s wellbeing, dignity in farming and living; safer, more nutritious local food, fodder, fibre; and cooler, resilient planet.
India has been the world’s largest milk producer since 1996. Thanks to Shastri, Amul(s), Tribhuvan Kaaka, Milk man Verghese Kurien, Dairy Board, Operation Flood, White revolution. Replicating Amuls, Anand Pattern Cooperatives. NDDB, Dairy Board, a society started in 1965 had no funds. Started with a local replication effort from Amul in a small way. Next European Economic Community, EEC’s gifts (via FAO) of skimmed milk powder and butter oil – monetized by selling, generated funds to build more Amuls for metros of milk consumption, and milk grid. A fully-owned Government Company, Indian Dairy Corporation, managed finance. It had the same board as the Dairy Board’s board.
Building its team(s) to undertake activities fully unknown – from a variety of related disciplines, training, deploying, and transferring to the emerging dairy cooperative projects/unions. Amul served as a training ground for these teams. Onboarding states – signing agreements with state governments – for creating farmer-owned 2 tier dairy cooperatives was long-drawn and time consuming, taking years. Sourcing equipment for dairies, chilling centres, cattle feed plants, etc., through bulk procurement process. Finally, planning itself including consumer, producer, cattle surveys, linking production to consumption, forming cooperatives, and setting up dairies. More Phases, more Operations.
Google DeepMind’s Gemini, equipped with the “Deep Think” system, matched the performance of the world’s top math students at 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring 35/42 points, within the same 4.5-hour limit as human competitors. It used a reasoning method that explores multiple problem-solving paths at once, trained through reinforcement learning and past problems.
Astronomers confirm that our Sun has 9 planets. Beyond Neptune, Planet Nine is a massive icy giant with a dense atmosphere and a rocky core, 5-10 times the mass of Earth, taking 10,000-20,000 years to orbit the Sun. 95% of the universe is completely invisible to us. It is dark matter, dark energy, mysterious forces – no light or energy. Our eyes detect a narrow sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, rest is unnoticed; We hear a limited range of frequencies, leaving out most. Neutrinos, nearly massless particles, are streaming through our body by the billions every second without a trace. Whales use low-frequency sound to communicate across oceans. Plants respond to stimuli invisible to the human eye. We are blind to most of reality. Every discovery opens the door to a bit of new understanding.
Can we remain humble, practice humility, because there is no other way to be? Can we be grateful?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Open to possibilities every time. In N? amaanitvayoga for 7L.