CV Anand is the new DGP in Telangana. He was earlier, Special Chief Secretary (Home); Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City; Director General, Anti-Corruption Bureau; and Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad.
Sadgati, Atish Kumar Mondal, PRM 4 IRMAN. Suffered and succumbed to a stroke.
West Bengal Phase 2 voting too ends, with 90%+ voter turnout. Now, let us wait for 4 May for Results in WB, TN, Assam, Kerala, Puduchchery. Exit Polls project: Assam would be with BJP-NDA; Puduchchery would be with Rangaswamy. Kerala may go with UDF, but with a narrow margin. DMK+ may retain Tamil Nadu, with Vijay making a mark. West Bengal is a cliffhanger, tug-of-war with a marginal edge to TMC – Mamata. It could be a hung assembly too.
2026 Food Planet Prize shortlist is out. It is the world’s biggest environmental prize, rewarding initiatives that support the resilient biosphere while feeding the world. It represents the intersection of the food system with core life-supporting systems: land, water, air, and biodiversity. We are on the shortlist. APCNF is one of the four finalists – Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming, APCNF, India; Conscious Kitchen, USA; NoPalm Ingredients, Netherlands; The Savanna Institute, USA. Drawn from a 30+ longlist. From 1000+ nominations around the world. According to the Food Prize team: Rigorously vetted, already delivering results, and ready to scale, each finalist is a worthy winner of the Prize and a source of much inspiration! In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a quiet agricultural revolution is unfolding, led by farmers, women’s collectives, and a belief that the soil already knows what to do. APCNF is one of the world’s largest transitions to agroecology — 1.8 million farmer families across more than 8,000 villages in India are ditching synthetic chemicals for natural farming. The result: healthier soils, lower emissions, and a blueprint now spreading to 22 other Indian states and three countries.
Maybe noted: NF regenerates soils, increasing organic carbon and improving soil biology. NF conserves water, enhances infiltration and protects water from chemical contamination. NF acts as a carbon sink and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 30–90%. NF strengthens climate resilience. NF restores, augments biodiversity. NF improves food-nutrition intensity, diversity and health. NF transforms lives. Women and marginalized are adopting/adapting, leading NF. Their agency is gaining. At individual, family, farm, plate, group, village, market, community, governance levels.
I read: The world’s population is 8.29 Billion. We need 1.6 planets to feed/service ourselves, at the current way of living, while we do not even need one full planet for our decent living. The ways we produce, distribute, and consume food needs to be radically, urgently reformed. For our survival, for our thriving now and in the future. Future generations. Actions are required immediately. Intensely. They are possible, feasible, viable, cost-effective, sustainable, inclusive, equitable, and scalable. Adequate, sufficient, more than sufficient. Can we take NF forward, to scale? Globally everywhere locally?
Can we build leaders, challenging, thinking, responsive, responsible, and owning leaders? Talented, intelligent, and hardworking. Can the systems, paradigms, forums, platforms, visions, and roadmaps take charge? With us, then, increasingly without us? Anyway, letting it go, happily increasingly decreasing attachment. Apprenticeship mode, handholding modus operandi, troubleshooting support.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Let flow. In N? sanchitadhaarayoga for 7L.