Valleys and Valour

  THE SIXTH SENSE OF A SUCCESSFUL LEADER     BACKDROP The unbridled consumption of finite natural resources and attendant consequences is endangering the survival of the very human species and the planet earth at large. Failure of conventional leadership to arrest the collective plunge into the vortex of assured self-annihilation is leading research to explore new frontiers in organisational and individual leadership. Western Thought Till the 19 th century the Western scientific and philosophical fields progressed on parallel tracks which precluded any meeting point between the physical and the metaphysical world. However certain seminal findings in the West during the course of the 20 th century influenced a revision in this long held view. Nikola Tesla, led the changing outlook with his famous assertion, “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomenon, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence...

  STRATEGIC REVIEW OF INDIAN POLITICAL KALEIDOSCOPE ON FARM REFORMS 2020   Kaleidoscope – a constantly changing pattern or sequence of elements.   Context It is comparatively more complex to guard a nation from internal threats than those arising externally. The security of a nation is in extreme jeopardy when the very class which should be securing it puts self-interest before national interest. Agriculture sector is vital to national security, it accounts for 16 % of the GDP and impacts the economic interests of 70 % of the population subsisting on income from this sector. The shenanigans of our political leaders over Farm Sector reforms in the past decade, with their kaleidoscopic viewpoints based on in power/out of power principle of opposing for sake of opposition, best showcases the danger posed to our national interests by the very class which should be its supreme guardian.   Passing of the three Farm Acts and the agitation against it is ver...