cosmic laborers_🌿

gazing at stars, the moon, and even the little tinkling objects in the sky at nights have been the best play that i could fantasize since childhood. always wondering to imagine where do all they live? what do all they do? do they talk to each other? do they all have any language? and so many questions likewise.

more than that, i had my own theories to justify their relations with me. that, they all go to work as laborers in the daytime. just like i go with mumma-bappu, and they might be coming back to their sky-home in the night to rest, that too like me.

such a fun it was! now i think of it with so much existing knowledge like cosmology, big-bang, and so on. but i don't know why they always keep me away from the theories that I intended to articulate in childhood. ~

📑 cosmic laborers_
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a star and the gossips and the theories

babasaheb's photos_🌿

the ideas, theories, programs, activism etc. that babasaheb has written and worked upon throughout his life are very inspiring. apart from those, one can also see that he had a unique style of living. not just unique, but it was more of a socio-politically transformational.

when i was a kid; in my initial impression of him, i did not know what particular books he has written or what specific activism he did for me or the community where we used to celebrate bhim jayanti. We knew a few words like "educate", "samvidhan", "buddham sharanam gachhami" etc. in a very scattered manner, but I did not know what do they all mean then.

nevertheless, the most compelling thing that used to hit so effectively to my childhood's mind was his photo on our wall. with a black and white suit on, a tie with a black coated transparent glasses; seating beside ramai and budhha and always gazing at me as if checking whether i am studying or not. that attraction of suit and tie motivated me more than anything.

till today, this has been a continuous process since then with various of his photos.

📑 babasaheb's photos 🌱
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

un-layering learnings_🌿

we tend to forget many stories by layering our realities with new learnings, new language, and new knowledge. However, it seems a natural process but it must also be seen critically from a pedagogical perspective.

communities like dalit that have been epistemologically muted for centuries; are in the ambit of continuous subjugation for multiple reasons. one of them is that they are yet to form alternative discourses, perspectives, concepts, categories, methodologies, frameworks, etc. in short, they have to strive for "alternative knowledge systems."

this argument may sound against modernity, rather going back to past may feel like no need to reveal the painful history; instead, this is not. apart from the importance of building alternative knowledge systems, one has to know understand three important processes while decoding the context namely: "freedom of mind," "inventive mind," and "navayana."

freedom of mind: it is the process of realizing one's own ontological beingness. It sets the norm or a bottom line, "all are humans, and nobody is inferior to others." but mere this is not enough. a learner also has to act to propagate this idea. by acting, it means rejecting knowledge systems that affirm oppression and inferiority.

inventive mind: a mind that seeks "newness". it leads the person to invent ideas and formulate new "visionary epistemologies" that can connect the past and present with the future.

navayana: navayana is a dynamic process (changes with said contemporary situations) that parallelly conglomerates the above two processes to formulate the "alternative knowledge system." it opens up a cosmos to learn and build more alternative knowledge systems.

📑 un-layering learnings
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