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WIRES!! The world today as we see it has become a web of wires and signals. We live in a globe that is constantly connected, but stopped truly communicating. We have been exposed to terms like detox of the body through various diets, detox of the mind through meditations but there seems to be a more urgent detoxification, cleansing, needed in the world today and that is a digital detox from time to time. Last year we spotted an interesting workshop on Digital Detoxification which was attended by over 70 people (including 40 children). We are headed into a future where people  live more in what they believe is an  exciting virtual world trying their hardest each day to escape a mundane reality. No doubt the world doesn't seem too big and too far fetched to conquer anymore. Digitization has tremendous benefits but what we need to answer is at what cost.  Addiction Over millions of years, humans have grown amidst nature, playing, working, fighting, inte...

Will the Earth Survive for Generations to Come The increase in life expectancy of humans is what we hear..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Throwing the dice on Bulls and Bears..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Growth at the cost of forests, the natural habitat disappears..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? The elements scream, apparent are their invisible tears..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Real sustainability neither gets an eye nor ear..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Dreams and goals, man enters new frontiers..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Parched fields, but the focus is on earnings & careers..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? GDP rise, development in all spheres..  Will the Earth survive another 100 years? Flooding and droughts, rapidly melting glaciers..  Will the Earth survive another ...

Natural Farming and Us While I was working on this topic, I came across an article titled “Leading agile transformation: The new capabilities leaders need to build 21st-century organizations”. It was published in October 2018 by Mckinsey & Company and written by Aaron De Smet, Michael Lurie, Andrew St George. I quote one of the paragraphs here “Now, it might be appropriate to explore a new language of leadership: the leader as visionary, architect, coach, and catalyst. For organizations seen as living organisms, the appropriate metaphor might be for the leader to be a gardener — a creative guide and steward who has a nurturing role and a variety of relations with different parts of a garden. For instance, as a gardener, the agile leader might pay attention to creating the fertile soil and environment that will enable growth and creativity to flourish.” I have been researching on the subject of natural farming and recently did a course at Bhaskar Save’s farm Kalpavruksha ...