kishor Jagirdar

With Prahalad Kakkar -the Advertisement Industry Guru Rotary 3190 District Governor D.G BadriPrasad and Rtn Anupama at Hongkong With Mr.Sam Pitroda -Advisor to the Prime Minister of India for Innovation and telecommunication Life suddenly springs such delightful surprises that when one least expects .When I was called on to be a part of the India Japan Global Partnership Summit 2011(IJGPS) in June I had no idea that what an extraordinary challenge and mammoth task it would be. Without second thoughts I hopped into the band wagon at the India Center Foundation office at Jhor Bhag New Delhi. Working out of Delhi itself was a challenge for me having been more accustomed to the natural settings of the Garden City Bangalore. Suddenly here I am now all the time in AC environment while the outside temperature was always extreme. What an excruciating time it was, multi-tasking, managing multiple Vendors, trouble shooting, Handling APEX Associations and trade bodies , Looking

Some of the thoughts Shared with me by TANA from Unbound Organisation on Gandhis thoughts in line with Hind Swaraj “For me, it is enough to know the means. Means and end are convertible terms in my philosophy of life. “ Young India, 26-12-’24, p. 424 “The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree.” Hind Swaraj, (1962), p. 71 “They say ‘means are after all means’. I would say ‘means are after all everything’. As the means so the end…There is no wall of separation between means and end. Indeed the Creator has given us control (and that too very limited) over means, none over the end. Realization of the goal is in exact proportion to that of the means. This is a proposition that admits of no exception. Young India, 17-7-’24, p. 236 “The clearest possible definition of the goal and its appreciation would fail to take us there, if we do not know and utilize the

Fascination to Himalayas and its stories always enamored me. When I saw the Learning Society having organized an Unconference at BIR a village at the foot hills of Himalayas on the 4th April 2011. I couldn’t resist the idea that I would be meeting a gathering of people on the agenda of “Change “with Contemplation, creativity, compassion and Courage as the theme. Without much planning just packed up and landed in Delhi on 3rd April by early morning flight with my mother who was also fascinated with it being an educationist for 33 years .Her curiosity promoted her to join me. There reached ISBT and got into a regular bus to Chandigarh. From Chandigarh it was another 9 hours long journey. When we reached Baijnath it was 3 am, in the biting cold we were the only ones at the bus stand with everyone in their warm bed. Luckily we found a Taxi to the small Tibetan village(upper) BIR in the backdrop of Dhauladhar Ranges of Himalayas. which is about 2 hours drive to Dharmashala the Ti