India loses Test series with New Zealand. After 12 years at home.
Chiranjeevi wins ANR National Award – lifetime achievement. Big B would do the honours.
Bihar is getting ready for Elections in 2025.
Nationwide census will begin in 2025 and conclude in 2026. Originally, it was to be in 2021. Census cycle will be now 2025, 2035, 2045, 2055. Census aims to collect comprehensive data on India’s population, including religion, class, and caste categories. Sect affiliations may be included this time. Caste based census is a distinct possibility. The Government of India is still reluctant to agree.
50-year-old Tamil actor Vijay aka Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, referred as Ilayathalapathy – young commander, is positioning himself and his party – Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, TVK as the better alternative to DMK in Tamil Nadu. Better than AIADMK, BJP. He is a mass hero. Highest paid actor. Will the charm work in politics? Will he hurt DMK more or AIADMK more? Will DMK maintain Stalin as DMK face some more time? Next election is 2 years away. Will Vijay emerge a disruptor, at least?
Students are increasingly yielding to academic pressures, social isolation, anxiety, depression and personal struggles. Student suicides are increasing at 4%. More in high-end premier academic institutes. Are these institutes pushing students to academic excellence, else get ejected or collapse? 0.5-1% is the hit rate of students entering premier institutes, and there is high pressure to keep the adrenaline going for the entire duration of the course after that. Pressure from peers, institutes, parents, and society. Load and toxicity are intense. Mental stamina, health support, and counselling is weak. Seeking support is not comfortable for many yet. There are not many counsellors available. Marginalized face discrimination, harassment. Placement may not be commensurate. Debt burden can be daunting. Relentless drive to succeed is a killer. Can we have mental health in our curriculums? Can we have more holistic assessments of aptitude, interests? Career counselling for more possibilities, choices to choose from.
Can AI help in social impact efforts? Is IDR Answers, with 2000+ articles from 1500 contributors, showing a way? Facts, fact-checked. We can challenge the assumptions. Question the biases, blind spots, and bottlenecks. Analysis with multiple lenses. Can we have a dedicated N-way, Natural Farming AI-based digital portal, platform? Sourcing knowledge from a wider, larger portfolio of portals.
We are here to ‘research’ and gift the research results to humanity today, tomorrow, and long after. Aren’t name, fame, and money incidental side effects?
Let us agree: State is the key in ‘development’ effort. We can help in accelerating, discovering ways, and reducing time. Can we deliver what is needed urgently? Can we innovate, demonstrate better faster ways? Can we help increase people’s agency? Increasing solvers, doers, and champions. Can we transcend fish, fishing to meta-fishing, meta-skilling? Can we internalize leadership in us – trusteeship, systems, and diligence, growing leaders, being soft on people, may be wrong, introverts do deliver, taking feedback, storytelling, culture, psychological safety, 20%-80%, minimal meetings, to-dos, 7-whys, reward performers, criticize privately, and intra-interplay. For the VUCA world. Can we?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing helpfully in tandem. In N? kshamatayoga for 7L.
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