24+ week pregnancy cannot be terminated (Medical Termination of Pregnancy, MTP Act). Unborn child has the right to life. Only immediate threat to mother or foetal abnormality could exempt this. Even if the mother pleads inability – mental, physical,or monetary – termination is not agreeable. Baby so delivered can be given up for adoption, if parents desire. Mother’s rights are not absolute.
Inquilab Zindabad: Young Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Chandrasekhar Azad, Khudiram Bose, et al sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom. What is causing our living and our death?
- Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, 1908- 25 Mar 1983. From Srikakulam-Visakhapatnam. Journalist, Author, Editor-in-chief – National Herald for 32 years. His weekly column under the pseudonym ‘Magnus’ was the most widely read column. His writings include: Magnus and muses: ‘off the record musings of MC’; Journalism and Politics; The press; 25 years of Indian Independence; India: portrait of a people. MC is an all-time role model English journalist in India.
Pathways taken by surprise. Geographic. Gundrampally, Sarvail, Hyderabad, Nagarjunasagar, Warangal, Guntur, Anand, Adilabad, Visakhapatnam, Anand, Hyderabad, Multiple locations in India, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Telugu States.
Into Universities – 2 pushkars. Rural growing-with-me primary-upper primary school; late admission in zilla parishad high school; Sarvail gurukulam; Naivaasya kalasala, via a government junior college; Regional Engineering college, now National Institute of Technology; Rural management institute.
Universities that taught through the third pushkar. Explorations in reflections, literature and civil society, teaching Computers and Society in Engineering College to being and working with Kurien and his core team on market intervention at national level, and collectives, to brains-trust, oils/oilseeds estimation, teaching information, to being and working with tribal communities in erstwhile Adilabad in the vicinity of Pranhita and Godavari, hills of Eastern Ghats, around Simhachalam, Annavaram, Bhadrachalam, Srisailam, Tirupati, and Visakhapatnam, to commons in the country from Himalayan Vanpanchayats, Gramya Jungles, Gauchar lands, Revenue waste lands, based back in Anand, shared visioning for ecologically fragile and marginalized zones, to participatory processes, methods, and tools, for development with Robert Chambers, Jimmy in Outreach, to Community Public Trust for paying back. This pathway seems to have prepared all through for the next 2 pushkars. Maybe the most advanced third too.
Universities of give and take, teaching and being taught over fourth and fifth pushkars. Culminating in tribal, rural, and urban livelihoods, enterprises and self-help movement in Telugu states and outside, across India and outside, to 7L facilitator mentoring 10^5+ livelihoods support individuals, enterprises, organizations, and networks, to NF, N-living lifeworker. Akshara Livelihoods, Yogakshemam, 7LCx. Programmes in Development Management-Leadership; NF Farmer Scientists. More teams, entities, more vision-plans, more networks, more associates, more friends, and more young ourselves.
Unfolding sixth pushkar. Preparing for it, with extraordinary excitement. Being nurtured, supported, let go; being, becoming, flowing free. For awakened energies expressed wholly. Can we join hands?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Responding to flowing pathways. In N? swaagatayoga for 7L.
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