Talks about peace in Ukraine are increasing, becoming louder. At the same time, the Hamas-Israel and Hezbollah-Israel wars are looming large. More and more are getting drawn. Markets are reacting. Share prices are falling dramatically. Likely recovery is not foreseeable in the near future.
The US Presidential race is going the tug-of-war way. No clear winning projections.
Maharashtra, BJP front appears to have an edge. Jharkhand appears otherwise.
‘Hum, When Women Lead’, a book from UN Women India, introduces 75 women leaders, remarkable. These include: Archana Mane, a board member of a Producer Company of women; Gayatri Swahar, Y-Cook start-up entrepreneur and mentor to CEOs of FPOs; Jhulan Goswami, international cricketer; Drishana Kalita, founder, Puppet People; Sandhya Gupta, founder, Aavishkaar, training women to become skilled maths educators.
In the next 365 days, can we establish conversations, cohorts with all the key schools, their teachers and their alumni? Taking up group activities, prizes-awards, fellowships, and so on. For me, these are at least 5 academic schools, 5 experiential schools. School at Gundrampally, Sarvail Gurukulam, Nagarjunasagar Residential College, NIT Warangal, IRMA; K-school; Livelihoods; SERP; NRLM; NIRD; and NF.
In the next 365 days, can we also develop perspective plans for Journeys, Conversations, Notes, Books, Pictures, Videos, Classes, Case examples, Cohorts, outreached co-learners, fellowships, curriculums, learning programs, learning architecture, Visioning, Support, Field Stations, and teams over the next 10,000 hours, across Telugu states, India, South Asia and outside? Can we fix several work homing locations? Across. Can we visualize perspective vision – expected results frame, the corresponding 2025 baseline, reality against the vision, internal external ladders – strengths-opportunities, internal external snakes – and weaknesses-constraints-bottlenecks? Can we develop the activity-steps individual and team plans with time required, timelines, knowledge-skills-tools-resources, partnerships, support required, costs-budgets, et al? Can we develop a resource – human, social, financial, physical, natural, and spiritual – plans that include mobilization, inspiration, capacitation, and agency development? Can we find investing core – team, capital, expertise, spread-out resources geographic, and thematic?
In the tribal-rural-urban emerging TRUE livelihoods-poverty reduction-development for poor-vulnerable-marginalized domain. Identity, solidarity, capacity, rights-entitlements, wellbeing, and freedom. Portfolios of livelihoods. Institutions, Animators, Facilitators, Collectives, commons, communities, self-help movement – women, elders et al, agency, local individual collective enterprises, natural living-farming. Localization, customization, communitization, appropriate technology, sustainability, and legacy. Digital platforms, forums. Education, Health.
Let us not refer to ourselves as leaders, creative, successful, experts, innovative, experienced, talented, hardworking, smart, intelligent, clever, and humble? In introducing ourselves, in notes about us, in our CVs, in our social media accounts et al. Can we? Can we move away from ‘convenience’?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing with ‘will, capacity, spaces’. In N? kartayoga for 7L.
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