Ananth moves on, handing over the mantle to us. Being fully engaged on one hand, fully detached on the other. Being generous with time, energy, attention, in addition to ‘funds’. Unconditionally. Open door, heart, mind, spirit. Compassionate with let go as the mantra.
Bharat Ratna, ‘God of Cricket’, Sachin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, 53 [24 April 1973- ]. 100+ international centuries through 664 matches.
NCBN, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, 76 [20 April 1950], Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh [1995-2004 combined AP; 2014-19; 2024- ], National President of Telugu Desam. More than the norm. The norm of 75 years in political executive positions, set by Modi, to retire Advani et al to Margadarshak positions. Maybe something is brewing up in handing over in the state!? Global Forum for Sustainable Transformation, GFST, with NCBN in chair, has unveiled India@2047.
As Minhaj Amin put it, can we transcend the distinction, definitional debates – organic – natural; regenerative – agroecology; traditional – new science; pilot – scale; trusted funding – log frames; local – linkages; self-sufficiency no food miles – income; productivity – sustainability? Can we find, evolve common ground, common direction, and common narratives? No chemicals; 365day green cover; better soil, water, planet health; resilience, diversity, nutrition, and wellbeing. Can we?
Why do we need to wait for fulfilling a guarantee, constitutional guarantee? Can’t we front-end with what is possible immediately? Can’t this be inclusive, inclusive of the unprivileged, poor, vulnerable, and marginalized? In various ways. Can we offer enabling conditions in favour of agency for these? Can we take the ‘margins’ into the centre, into leadership? Can we work to dismantle the structural inequalities, simultaneously?
Sadgati, Gopal Rao – Hyderabad Book Fair co-founder.
Books. Empty books – notes; diaries; accounts, etc., written books, periodicals, newspapers. Written work. Printed, audio, electronic. Fiction, non-fiction. Can we read books? At least once a week? Silently mostly. Only 5% do read 50 books a year. Can we be in this 5%? Literacy is more than reading. It includes writing, speaking, listening and doing basic math. Communicating visually, verbally, digitally. Can we be literate, learn reading, writing, and doing math simultaneously? Can we persist with writing by hand? Can we read faster? Speed reading improves comprehension. Can we go towards 500+ words per minute? Can we make reading, writing, and doing math a daily habit?
Increased information availability situation. Yet, we need teachers. A teacher brings us understanding, ways of understanding, comprehending, thinking, and application. How do we get information in the knowledge form? How do we use this knowledge? How do we develop judgment, and reflection? How do we ask questions, right questions? How do we become open-ended, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary? Can the teachers evolve beyond lectures, question-answers, to discuss, explore, analyse, experience, practice, while achieving conceptual clarity on fundamentals? Can we take assessment to go beyond ‘recall’, tasks, assignments, individual-group work, solving problems, visualization, imagination et al? Using paper, pen, and brain.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Books, Digital, AI with Mentors. In N?nibodhayoga for 7L.