Tabla maestro Padma Vibhushan Ustad Zakir Hussain Alla Rakha Qureshi, 73, succumbs to his idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Sadgati. Tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor. He also acted in ‘Heat and Dust’. He was visiting professor: Princeton; Stanford. Received: Kyoto Prize; Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Fellowship, Ratna Sadasya; US National Endowment for Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship; Honorary Doctorate – Mumbai University; Four Grammy Awards. Notable Documentaries: Zakir and his friends; The speaking hand: Zakir Hussain; The Art of the Indian Drum. Book – Zakir Hussain: A Life in Music. Co-founder: World music supergroup Tabla Beat Science.
We have fond memories of him visiting IRMA in 1988 as part of SPIC-MACAY performance, and spending time with us in hostels for a day and night. Several hours into the night.
Maharashtra: Cabinet expansion. 42 into the team including Devendra Fadnavis, and his two deputies, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. Portfolios are not allocated yet.
Dr Lisa Su, AMD CEO, is named Times’ CEO 2024. She sets exceptionally high standards for herself and her team. She operates in a demanding work culture; sets ambitious, seemingly impossible goals; holds weekend meetings; communicates with the teamwith team late into the night; pays attention to details. Any lessons from this? Effective, efficient, useful work hoursworkhours – can we give? If we lack skills, tools, knowledge, resources – can we acquire and offer? Can we plan, and deliver the plan? Can we facilitate our teams to do the same?
Can we perform, do, the best we can? Doing effectively, efficiently. Recognition, credit, respect, power would follow.
Who are we? What we are reliable, countable for; what we have delivered, achieved, helped achieve, contributed to; what we have uniquely delivered, contributed; what our potential is; what our track record in moving the potential to results; what our willingness to work on, work with the potential; what we including our significant others think and perceive us. What ladders, strengths, networks, links, connections, opportunities we have and our knowledge, skills, tools, resources to use these ladders. What snakes, constraints, vulnerabilities, threats we have, and we found ways to deal with, escape from, kill.
If we, others around us, our world know who we are, then the universe conspires to use us, as its doers, instruments, tools, leaders, mentors, coaches, friends, philosophers, and guides. Can we improve our understanding of ourselves? Can we improve our ‘agency’ based on this understanding? Can we sharpen our saws to improve our agency – willingness, institutions, forums, platforms, skills, tools, resources, teams and other abilities? Including unlearning. Can we indicate our availability, our terms, preconditions? Can we articulate, advocate for ‘spaces’? Can we deploy ourselves usefully, meaningfully, relevantly, effectively? Idiosyncratically, collectively, severally in tandem. Locally adapted, customized, communitized. Can we work like trustees of nextGen while being deployed? Can we have more of us? Can we have more competence? Can we be full, more?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing. Flows aligned to contours. In N? nijasangayoga for 7L.
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