Bicycle. Pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle. 100M+ bicycles per year with USD 100B+ market size. Cycling is 3-4 times faster than walking. With same energy. Can we walk, jog, run, and cycle? Often.
Environment is the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences. Complex web of natural, physical, and biological forces that shape life on Earth; or the specific social, cultural, and physical atmosphere in which an individual or organism exists. Natural Environment encompassing all living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) things occurring naturally on Earth in four spheres – atmosphere (air), hydrosphere (water), lithosphere (land), biosphere (life); Built (Anthropogenic) Environment; Psychological and Social Environment; Technical and Domain-Specific Environments.
2026 World Environment Day calls for Climate Action. Planet is sending signals – rising seas, raging wildfires, heatwaves, melting glaciers. Crossing 1.5°C limit. Can we go natural? Stretched solar panels, wind turbines, replanted trees, forests, natural farming, natural food, natural living, and natural life. Nature positivity. Beyond net zero schools, villages, and lives.
Is TMC heading for ‘death’? In a month. Split, exodus, or a resurrection. Blame game, pointing fingers to I-PAC? Letter to Speaker with forged signatures? Expelled Ritabrata with 59 MLAs meeting Speaker to get recognition; and Ritabrata becoming LoP. Ritabrata still maintains that Mamata as their overall leader. Will TMC survive 5 years, and get a new lease of life?
DK retains Finance; while giving portfolios to his 13 Ministers – Priyank Kharge – Home; D Parameshwara – Revenue; KJ George – Energy; Krishna B – Greater Bengaluru Development; Eshwar Khandre – Rural Development & Panchayati Raj; Yathindra Siddaramaiah – Urban Development.
Elections to 27 Rajya Sabha seats announced.
Food Planet Prize 2026 to APCNF. Food, Fibre, and Fuel. Rajsekhar, AP Agri Special Chief Secretary said – ‘This award is not just a recognition. It is a responsibility.’ RySS Executive Vice Chairman Vijay Kumar said – ‘The magic is in the women…..This journey … began with organising women. … What we are doing is simple. It can be done by anybody….This recognition … is a signal to the world that community-led transformation can restore soils, strengthen livelihoods, build climate resilience, and heal the planet. …This award belongs to the millions of women who made it possible.’
Satya Tripathi, Global Alliance for Sustainable Planet, GASP said – ‘…..This recognition is about far more than an award. It is a validation of a bold idea whose time has come: that transformative agriculture can simultaneously regenerate nature, improve farmer livelihoods, strengthen food security, enhance public health, and build resilience to climate change. …..Most importantly, it places farmers—and especially women farmers—at the centre of transformation…..May this well-deserved recognition accelerate the spread of regenerative agriculture around the world and inspire others to pursue development that works for people, nature, and future generations alike.’
Happiness? Ability to rest our heart even when life is imperfect. Acceptance, gratitude, inner peace amid uncertainty. Being grateful, finding comfort in what we have, seeing light despite cracks, letting go of sorrow over things beyond our control.
Can we appreciate? Murphy’s law – Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong; Kidlin’s law – Writing a problem clearly solves half of it; Gilbert’s law – Ownership of a task means ownership of the outcome; Wilson’s law – Prioritise knowledge and intelligence, money follows; Falkland’s law – If a decision isn’t necessary, don’t make it. Can we assume friction, build buffers? build accountability? nurture capability? show strategic restraint? Learn, live, lead forward?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Letting go, being happy. In N? Rtadharmayoga for 7L.