Women. The nurturers. Girls, Females, XXs. With differentiated female anatomy, female reproductive system. Sexually different with gender equality. Life expectancy at birth is generally longer – 6 to 8 years longer. Women show higher reading and language skills. Literacy levels have been caught up. Women are moving towards having higher education more. But, in professional jobs, they are lagging behind. Less numbers of them are climbing the job hierarchies. Women are underrepresented in government and political governance. Suffrage is still catching up. Women in professional fields, enterprises, technical-managerial-leadership roles are catching up. Fast. The world is better, safer in the hands of women. Can we leave it to them? Can they take charge? Can we help them to take charge? India wins T20 World Cup. Third time. They win Prize Money USD 2.34M; and 6x Bonus from BCCI. Several heroes include: Sanju Samson, Bumra, Kisan. The Iran war continues. Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated. Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, grandchild, and daughter-in-law had also been killed. The state declared 40 days of mourning. Several commanders in the Revolutionary Guards may have been killed. Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour had been killed. Several officials, thousands of civilians were also killed. Infrastructure, facilities were destroyed. Lebanon suffered casualties too in the hundreds. Casualties on the US side, Israel side were minimal. Interim Leadership Council led by Alireza Arafi has taken charge and soon, Arafi has been killed. Khamanei’s son, Mojtaba, is taking over as Supreme Leader, elected by the Assembly of Experts.
Oil prices rose across. Airspaces across the Middle East were closed, and now they are opening back slowly. The Strait of Hormuz was soft-closed to shipping. Evacuations are going on. Internet services are down. Total economic loss might have exceeded USD 10 Billion already. Conservative estimates say 2-3% dip in Global GDP if the war remains local, regional, and limited to the Middle East.
Nepal is getting a new PM. A rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, 35. His centrist RSP – Rastriya Swatantra Party – gets a landslide (125/165) win in Nepal. Balen’s song Nepal Haseko (Nepal Smiling) accumulated more than 10 million views. Balen defeats the former Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma KP Oli in his parliamentary constituency. However, Prachanda has won. The RSP manifesto promised to create 1.2 million jobs and reduce forced migration; to raise Nepal’s per capita income from USD 1,447 to USD 3,000 in 5 years. Hope Nepal continues to smile.
Job Hugging. People stay putin their current job despite feeling under-challenged, disengaged, or unhappy. Teams/organizations holding on to people, experienced. Security centricity has hit. It is not-so-much loyalty, but to do with fewer opportunities. Professional stagnated, feeling trapped/stuck, disengaged, burnt out people staying back may not help teams, organizations. How do we take on new responsibilities, learn additional skills, internal movements/transfers, collaborating cross-circles? How do we build relationships within? With mentors, colleagues.
AI writes code, analyses large datasets, design systems et al; tutors; expands access to knowledge. It may not replicate human intuition, ethical reasoning, or creative problem-solving. Can it create learning ecosystem(s) of mentoring, peer learning, working together? Can it offer immersion, induction, judgment, intuitive/lateral thinking? Can it certify meta-learning, competence, capability? In the areas of human ingenuity. Can we, beyond 7R+ literacy, go on to meta-KSTR eduction?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Being there with 7R+. In N? ativartanayoga for 7L.