Olympics: Third medal, bronze, comes in Men’s 50m rifle shooting. Through Swapnil Kusale.
Wayanad’s toll increases to 300.
Rest in peace, James Scott! First recipient of the Ester Boserup Prize in Development Research. Scholar impacting several disciplines. His books include: “Weapons of the Weak”, “Seeing Like a State”, “Art of Not Being Governed”, “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States”.
Crosses, crossroads, possibilities, and vulnerabilities are increasing. How do we resolve them? How are we working on them?
What should we/I be doing in the next pushkars? Essentially as a 7L lifeworker. Life, living, livelihoods, linkages, leading, learning, and loving. With hope, faith, promise, love, and coexistence as core. The next 23-24 years, till 2047, entire amrt kaal. Development Practice-centric Senior Advisor, mentor, coach, thought leader, and facilitator. Consultant. Portfolio social entrepreneur. Practitioner-academic. Serving on boards, chairing some. Handholding, troubleshooting practitioners in some coalitions, networks, programmes, collectives, enterprises, start-ups, support organizations, governments, donors, philanthropies, bilateral-multilaterals et al. Leading-managing support – visioning, frameworks, architecture, strategy, systems, scaling, design, planning, organization/ institutional development, engendered human resources with agency, and tracking. Scoping, studies, assessments, measurements, curriculums, and learning facilitation.
Across India, and outside. Across breadth in – Tribal, rural, urban, emerging – TRUE Livelihoods, Poverty Reduction, Development domain. Of Poor, vulnerable, marginal. Deep. Transcending arrows, capitals, contexts, into identity, solidarity, capacity, rights, wellbeing, and freedom-choices.
‘Livelihoods’ – should we continue? Yoga’kshemam’ – should I persist? Channel, will it work? Journeys, conversations, notes, books, pictures, videos, classes, greened models, cohorts, teams, aashram(s), and gurukulam(s)? Writeshops? Scale deep, scale-up, scale-out, and hybrid portfolios? Resources – people, partners, and paisa? Protocols, processes? Platform(s), Forum(s)? One stop centre(s)?
For participatory N7L movement going viral, without lapsing back. Localized, customized, and communitized. Inclusive, equitable.
Next pushkars are the beginning of the breaking free. Rediscovering, discovering, evolving our portfolio. Around our true purpose, of being useful, to the fullest extent our innate agency permits. Right influences can strengthen, reclaim our agency. On the best possibilities that present before us. Within the realms of stamina of body, mind, heart, soul, resources, and extended teams, we need to soar. Being ‘conditioned, tied’ for 3 decades and more, we might falter a bit for a while. We might have lost track of being, breaking free.
Can we persist to soar, fly high, for sure? Can we get the birds’ views, worms’ views through our inner, outer journeys, conversations? Can we go into higher realms of usefulness, with concrete actions, action plans? Together, in harmony with N? Can we?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we flow in practice, warm-up together. In N? saadhanayoga for 7L.
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