Thank you for coming together last weekend for a call with Rohini Nilekani, Ravi Venkatesan and Friends! As Rohini invited us to rebalance "samaaj, sarkaar and samaj", re-imagine distributed scale, and decentralize power, Ravi spoke about his own journey of emptying, inverting the power pyramid, and using entrepreneurship as a trojan horse for mass flourishing. Shaalini and Vineet inspired us with everyday examples of unlocking multiple expressions of wealth. Juxtaposed between Brinda's flute rendition of Gandhi's favorite prayer and Jordyn's Yogananda song, we concluded with -- 'Occupy Heart.'

Below are a few ways to build on the numerous ripples already in motion ...

• Recordings: audio and video are now up!
  
• Questions: we've highlighted top-15 questions. Do add your own, we hope to get our speakers to respond to them.
  
• Engage: to connect with each other (and speakers), share resources and much more, join our WWGD group.
  
• More Gandhi? we just hosted an in-depth interview with Gandhi's biographer, Ramachandra Guha, with insightful nuggets. Watch here.
  
• Go Deeper: explore a weekend "hands, head, heart" retreat. And our upcoming Laddership Pods.
  
• Herd Immunity with Karuna? make Vineet proud, and check out KarunaVirus India.

Here is small collage from your thoughtful feedback and highlights: "There cannot be a system so good that the individuals in it need not be good." (Gandhi) "Can we have an economy that organizes around fulfilment of needs over multiplication of wants?" "We must empty ourselves before we can fill others." "A good harvest comes from good soil, seed, and climate." "Entrepreneurship is just a trojan horse for civic engagement." "New paradigms won't come from old systems." "Can we distribute the ability to solve problems?" "We a populace empowered with agency." "Accumulation brings a lot of toxicity." "Small is beautiful, and it scales in distributed ways." "Forget recovery. Let's build a new normal." "Threads that bind us together are now visible -- let us spin a marvelous new conversation with our future." "If not now, when? If not you, who?"

Despite the challenging constraints of the pandemic, it is reassuring that our spirits still find ways to come together across boundaries, unite around universal values, and keep compounding small ripples of goodwill until they turn into tidal waves.

Thank you, for co-creating such a sacred space, and we very much look forward to continuing the dialogue.

On behalf of a 25-volunteer crew,

Rahul and Jignasha
Curators, Awakin Talks
https://awakin.org/talks