Nine Billion Euro, 5000 Medals, 329 events, 32-sport Summer Olympics 2024, Paris 2024, takes off. 24 July – 11 August, with the Opening Ceremony on 26 July. France is third-time host. The Olympic torch relay began on 16 April in Greece, with 10,000 torchbearers in the relay. Opening ceremony, outside a stadium, 80-boat parade. Breaking, breakdance is included for the first time as an optional sport.
Can we care a little more about our diet? Starting with breakfast, as early as possible. Bigger, balanced, and mixed. Local, seasonal, traditional, and raw, as much as possible. Proteins, vitamins, minerals, fibre, whole grains, and healthy unprocessed fats. Water, fresh liquids. Variety matters. Staying away from processed, packaged. A 12-hour night break from eating could be great. Breakfast should be taken without looking for any hunger signals.
Are we taxed more? Are we tax compliant? Are we comfortable in blacking our money, in our own ways? Are we wanting to find ways – illegal, unethical – for not paying taxes? Can we remove the exemptions? Can we include, impose limits to exemptions? Can we be taxed on expenditure, expenses rather than incomes? Can we have universal social investment, expenditure, access to education, health, insurance et al? Can we have pensions for all? Can all families have universal minimum needs defined and met?
The response to social development and community needs of the marginalized is too little, too late. Too much lip service. Too many people want to take credit for the same. Do we really care for the marginalized, planet, and the nextgen? System(s) pretends: I am for you; I am willing to transform. System cheats, has a double tongue. In reality, a little nudge takes ‘ages’. Systems appear to be changing to prevent or postpone the ‘movement, people’s revolution’. Communitizing the system(s), the elements of the system, and building agency of the marginalized for the same is a possibility. Can we do this? Marginalized seem to be further marginalized, and pushed to extreme edges. Support organizations are losing relevance, mandates slowly, day-by-day. Systems including cultural, behavioural, are not in sync, not in harmony with nature.
How do we go forward, when intent is expressed? At the highest level. How is the percolation of the same downward? How is the action following the intent? Changes in policies, plans? Teams for taking the intent forward? Budget, adequate budget? Behavioural changes – rewards, Incentives, and sanctions? Can we communitize the systems, can communities take charge of the systems, or can we embed community into the systems? Can we take it upwards, as a movement, scaled, and viralled movement? Can we generate wide-scale demand for change? Can we seek significant ‘portions’ of time, energy, and resources from the cutting-edge system users, system support providers for systems change plans and progress? Can we track? Can we localize, collectivize, and communitize? Can we augment ‘will’, capacity, and space for the same? Can we build agency for negotiating systems change within – behaviour et al, and without – samaaj, bazaar, sarkaar et al?
Can we have global natural amrt movement at local levels? With agency in people, communities. Urgently, with no time to lose. Can we shed the ‘deadwood’? Can we enlist, augment, and empower our champions, our teams, our portfolios, with agency? Can we resolve the tension of the means to ends?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we pursue, persist manthan together. In N? nijavikaarayoga for 7L.
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