1 Table of Contents 1. “Poorest India” Losing Out?! ................................................................................................................ 6 2. Economic and Social Climate Change ................................................................................................... 8 3. CHANGING times... ............................................................................................................................. 10 4. Development Priorities! ...................................................................................................................... 12 5. Engineered Livelihoods Contexts! ....................................................................................................... 15 6. Oppression of Our Times! ................................................................................................................... 17 7. Livelihoods in Tradition? ..................................................................................................................... 22 8. Education-Life-Livelihoods .................................................................................................................. 25 9. Elephant and The Six ‘Blind’ ................................................................................................................ 28 10. Opportunities for the Poor?!? ........................................................................................................ 31 11. Poor Are Increasing!........................................................................................................................ 34 12. Why Are We So Desperate? ............................................................................................................ 37 13. Change - We Must! ......................................................................................................................... 40 14. We Cannot Escape Change! ............................................................................................................ 43 15. Leaders of Legacy of Change - Can We Build? ................................................................................ 47 16. Next Generation Leaders? .............................................................................................................. 50 17. Working with New Emerging Leaders! ........................................................................................... 53 18. Hope, Now is the TIME! .................................................................................................................. 57 19. Youth in the Lead! ........................................................................................................................... 61 20. Be together! Collectivize! ................................................................................................................ 65 21. Entrepreneurs! Collectives! ............................................................................................................ 69 22. Skilling Youth! Integrating Facilitators! ........................................................................................... 73 23. Campaigns, Cadres and Collectives! ............................................................................................... 77 24. Workers, Professionals and Entrepreneurs! ................................................................................... 81 25. Development needs everyone! ....................................................................................................... 84 26. Right to be Independent and Developed! ...................................................................................... 87 27. Leading in Knowledge Domain! ...................................................................................................... 91 28. Learning to Learn, Practice and Lead!............................................................................................. 95 29. Investing in Social Leaders! ............................................................................................................. 99 30. Transforming Leaders! .................................................................................................................. 102 31. Leaders for Transforming Institutions! ......................................................................................... 106 32. Leaders are not enough! ............................................................................................................... 109 2 33. Giving Leaders and Leading Givers! .............................................................................................. 112 34. Caring Givers and Loving Givers! .................................................................................................. 115 35. People’s Professionals! ................................................................................................................. 118 36. Pyramid > Diamond! ..................................................................................................................... 122 37. 10,000 Hours! ................................................................................................................................ 124 38. Another 10,000 Hours! ................................................................................................................. 126 39. Learning to Share Learning! .......................................................................................................... 128 40. Let Us Argue and Learn! ................................................................................................................ 130 41. Let Us Argue, Teach and Learn! .................................................................................................... 132 42. Movement of Giving! .................................................................................................................... 134 43. Be with Them! ............................................................................................................................... 136 44. Let Us Know and Be With Them! .................................................................................................. 138 45. Hope Is in The Resilience of The Poor! ......................................................................................... 140 46. Collectives Bring in Responsible Business Behavior! .................................................................... 142 47. Towards Inclusive Growth! ........................................................................................................... 144 48. Antyodaya? Sarvodaya? ................................................................................................................ 146 49. Collectives of Self-help and Food Production! .............................................................................. 148 50. Mainstream from Vulnerable Streams! ........................................................................................ 150 51. Fellows with Poor and For Poor! ................................................................................................... 152 52. Staying With the Vulnerable With Love!....................................................................................... 154 53. To Manoharan With Love! ............................................................................................................ 156 54. Inclusion’s SHG Highway! .............................................................................................................. 158 55. Huge shortage of high-caliber men and women! ......................................................................... 160 56. Rare Social Entrepreneurs with/for Poor! .................................................................................... 162 57. Local Enterprises and Decent Jobs! .............................................................................................. 164 58. Architecture to Reduce Asymmetry in Access .............................................................................. 166 59. Dr Verghese Kurien: Rest in Peace; Poor are Coming Together! .................................................. 168 60. Let us Learn Livelihoods! Let us Join Hands!................................................................................. 172 61. Learn to Know, Do, Be, Co-exist and Beyond! .............................................................................. 174 62. Gear up, Lead and Mentor People Working with the Poor! ......................................................... 176 63. Reaching Out! ............................................................................................................................... 178 64. Livelihoods Management Universities! ........................................................................................ 180 65. National Centre for Livelihoods Learning! .................................................................................... 182 3 66. Grounded Assumptions! .............................................................................................................. 184 67. HR For the Poor ............................................................................................................................. 186 68. HR for the Poor! ............................................................................................................................ 188 69. Prosperous