Equinox. Equal day and night. Sun appears directly on the equator. Two equinoxes a year – 19-21 March, and 21-23 September. Equinox time is regarded as the start of spring, and autumn respectively. Equinox is also the new year in some countries like Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan et al.
Meteorology. Scientific study of the Earth’s atmosphere, encompassing weather patterns, atmospheric phenomena, and weather forecasting. Includes temperature, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover, wind speed and direction, and atmospheric pressure.
Tuberculosis, TB. A contagious disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, affecting lungs. Spreads through air when people with lung TB cough, sneeze, or spit. Curable with antibiotics.
Indian scholar, Padma Bhushan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is awarded with the Holberg Prize 2025, one of the largest international prizes. ~ 515,000 Euro. This is given to outstanding researcher in humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Gayatri is a Professor at Columbia University. With 15 honorary doctorates. Considered one of the most influential global intellectuals of our time. This prize is for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in comparative literature, translation, postcolonial studies, political philosophy, and feminist theory. Her research focus has been on the position of the subaltern, i.e. small social groups, including women, on the margins of history who cannot exercise their rights and whose perspectives cannot be included in generalizations about the nation state. She has also been teaching for the last 40 years in self-subsidized elementary schools with Dalits and tribals. Her seminal essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988) is a cornerstone post-colonial study. Her key works include: In Other Worlds (1987); Outside In the Teaching Machine (1993); Death of a Discipline (2003); An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), and Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching (2018); Spivak Moving (2024). She is working on ‘Globalizing Enslavement: My Brother Burghardt’.
US Vice President admits: globalization meant ‘rich’ move up the value-chain while poor do simple things. This could not work well. Poor started moving up. Global inequality could not be maintained. If we want to develop, we require strategic independence from the system intended to keep ‘poor’.
- Creative problem-solving and architecting complex systems still require human ingenuity. Continuous learning, creativity, and critical thinking, help us to use AI as a tool. With regulation, AI opens opportunities, offers solutions. For development, learning, education practice, impact and inspiration to us – methods, processes, tools, skills, and resources need to be ‘pooled’ up. Can we ‘learn’, give ourselves these, play with numbers, while we use the content, knowledge made available?
With our awakened energies, we flourish. Let them, let us be together with our being. Together we see us, honour us, take us into the depths of our journeys. We soften, expand, and get liberated. To be tender, warm. With faces refined, eyes gleaming, bodies radiating, graceful effortless movements, richer laughs, smiles, and healing touches. With our nourished essence, as we bloom, thrive, alive, in tune with life’s rhythm; as safety, respect, and devotion flow. Unstoppable, with our fullest expression(s).
Can we awaken our energies? Now. Intensive, extensive. Can more of us join hands in fresh five?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. In truth, sleep, and dream nested within. In N? namasteyoga for 7L.
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