Slumdog Billions and Leap Frogging the Recession
The miniature ecosystem (frame 1) above has an eagle, a vulture, a small community of frogs, a tree and a very deep well. The eagle and the vulture come to perch on the... More »
The miniature ecosystem (frame 1) above has an eagle, a vulture, a small community of frogs, a tree and a very deep well. The eagle and the vulture come to perch on the... More »
" Poverty in the world is an artificial creation. It doesn't belong to human civilization, and we can change that, we can make people come out of poverty and have the real state of affairs.... More »
Reinventing Work, Technology, Community and Governance* A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must... More »
J: The old fisherman took me to the shore, pointed his hands at some distant waves and the shoal. I could not see any fish. But I pretended that I could (the coward that I... More »
Continued from: http://firstdiscipline.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/dialogues_digging_deeper_in_space_and_time M: We have a 26/11, the Indian version of 9/11, and you are still digging? J:Recessions, terrorism and religious fundamentalism have manythings in common. It is very much part of the syndrome that... More »
M: Why have you come up with an addendum to Abraham Maslow? J: This is something which the participants came up with. They said the model is more complete if the hierarchy of needs are... More »
M: That was a long break. When is the next post? J: We will wait till the views touch a certain number. I mailed an early version of this part of the conversation to friends.... More »
J and M were cafe-hopping in Bangalore for the past many days J is a retiree after working for 34 years. M is between jobs and waiting for the next call from the head... More »
Fact, Fiction and Metaphor Are we guided by facts or fiction? We are guided less by facts and more by myth, fiction and fantasy 9/11 is a fact, not illusion, so are the... More »
I would like to play god for a few minutes In those few minutes I would globally find and replace the word teacher with student facilitator from the soft tissue memory banks of all... More »