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At Samanvaya we often encounter needs in society that no one is addressing and create and manage our own research work that is important. Most of these are short term assignments and often not clearly defined like a school project. It needs consistent interest in the subject of environment, agriculture, food safety and security, livelihoods, farmers, social issues, etc., Obviously not the kind of traits we find available readily with everyone. It basically needs someone with a specific orientation towards social and environmental issues. It is also not a one person effort, requiring a…
So, what if a delegate from India were to explain to Gandhi at the COP27 as to what exactly was happening there? So went the imagination during a train journey as the COP27 was about to unfold in Egypt….
Characters -
Indian Delegate: S is an middle aged IAS officer from Delhi, thinks of himself as pragmatic, now in COP27 as part of the Indian delegation.
Gandhi: landed from heaven and for the sake of convenience we assume that he was following the developments, so we need not explain a lot of the current craziness.
Dialogue -
Gandhi: S, please tell…
Potential Unlimited - Article Series on Ordinary People doing Extra-ordinary Work all around in Society
It was late 2021 when the then Editor of the reputed Vedanta Kesari magazine of the Ramakrishna Math, Chennai asked me to write a series of small articles on the interesting encounters that I seem to have with all sections of society. I had written a few articles for the Vedanta Kesari before and a big fan of this magazine with very limited circulation amongst the serious readers of Advaita Vedanta in India. Founded by Swami Vivekananda himself, my earliest reading on Vedanta…