India wins the 2025 Champions Trophy, defeating New Zealand in the finals on 9 March at Dubai. This edition is hosted by Pakistan Cricket Board. It is India’s third win – 2002, 2013 and 2025. Rohit played a Captain’s innings. The winning purse of the team is USD 2.24M. New Zealand is runner-up and its purse is UDS 1.12M. In total, the participants’ teams are receiving USD 6.9M.
Telangana, AP. Results of Teacher, Graduate MLC Elections – Telangana – BJP wins 2/3; Third one went to a Teachers’ Union, PRTU. In AP, all seats went to the TDP-led NDA. Now, nomination time for MLCs from Assemblies (5 in Telangana, 5 in AP) ends. Congress has put up 3, CPI 1, and BRS 1 in Telangana. It may be a unanimous election. Vijay Shanti will be one of them. In AP, all 5 are from NDA. Nagababu, Pawan Kalyan’s brother, is one of them. Elections are slated on 20 March.
Canada gets a new Prime Minister, Mark Carney (with 86% votes), in place of Justin Trudeau. He could continue up to October by which time Canada must hold elections. Snap polls are also possible before that. Mark accused Trump of ‘attacking Canadian workers, families and businesses; wanting Canada’s resources, water and land’.
Noam Chomsky at 95 loses his ability to speak, write.
What is hurting effectiveness, efficiency? Several things. Commute time, education, and education quality. Skills. Discipline. Time usage. Smart work, hard work. Being good at a subject is not useful. What matters is what we do, how fast we do, how correctly we do it. What matters is how we work with people, how we communicate, articulate, and how we plan our day, week and deliver the plan. What matters is whether we can identify the problem, appreciate the elements of the problem and come up with solution(s) that work. What matters is how we deploy our literacy, digital literacy, AI literacy, and related knowledge-skills-tools-resources and how we keep a deep understanding of at least one ‘discipline’ at our finger tips
In a trance. N, rather Universe, U takes charge. With all the agency. Gives time, energy, and attention. Inspires, engages, pursues, and persists. Sees, observes, and notices top to bottom, inside out. Nothing is not seen. Listens, whispers to rumblings to conversations, dialogues, lectures, classes, and thoughts turning into words. Nothing is unheard, not listened to. Said and unsaid. Cares, feels, hugs, caresses, and massages inside, outside, every part, every cell. Nothing is left-out. Tastes, smells. Feeds, drinks, eats, and chews. Touches, with gentle breeze. Rains, drenches. Wipes. Pours water. Drowns. Gives a dip, a shower, and a bath. Smiles, laughs. Triggers smiles. Jokes. Drinks tears, gives tears. Forgives. Gives amrt, takes amrt. Amrt in pain. From nothing and nowhere. Asks, listens. Seeks accountability. Remains accountable, traceable, and transparent. Answers, prompts, and teaches. Responds. Defends. and Encourages. Pushes forward. Pulls backwards. Showcases. Drives, takes around, holding the hand, and hand-in-hand. Onto Himalayas, into seas, into rivers, forests, and communities. Goes for a walk. Into solitude, oneness, and ecstasy. Takes in, joins in; and may be both at the same time, taking in, taking along, and joining in. Keeps intimate, passionate, and committed focus in the present, now. Affirming, serving, leading, and giving….
Can we get into trance, and be there? Longer and longer. With more intensity, energy. Consciously.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Handing over charge to U. In N? lokantarayoga for 7L.
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