PrabhuGuptara

#MakeTheBestOfYourLife Title of book by Prabhu Guptara, published by Forward Press (New Delhi, India) on 23 August 2018. The full title of the book is: "Make the Best of Your Life: Letters to Bahujan Youth" Note: "Bahujan" means the majority of Indians (who have historically been discriminated against, oppressed and dispossessed). Bahujans contrast with the minority of the population which has, from time immemorial, cornered the lion's share of the benefits of the country . This is the first-ever self-help book written specifically for Bahujans. The Hindi edition of the book is published simultaneously, by Forward Press, with the title कैसे बनाएं जीवन को खू़बसूरत : बहुजन युवाओं के नाम पत्र

The politically-neutral term for the "East China Sea" and the "South China Sea". The latter terms are preferred by those who are pro-China.

Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Bristol, U.K.

Dr Michael Schluter is the Founder of Relational Thinking (#R_Thinking), and of the Relational Thinking Network

Relational Thinking claims to open up a genuinely new way of reforming governments and organizations, as well as to provide a compass for individual action. The key points of Relational Thinking are: 1. People are more than individuals 2. Wealth means more than money 3. Society needs more than connections. (See also the entries for #relationalthinking, #relationalrisk and #relationalanalytics; and the website of the Relational Thinking Network)

This hashtag relates to the campaign by the government of Prime Minister Modi to rid India of the "cultural pollution" of Western influences. According to a statement by India's Minister for Culture, Mahesh Sharma, the government’s cultural agenda is driven by the anxieties of the ruling party and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, about the purity of Indian culture, the “polluting” effects of westernisation, the alleged disappearance of Sanskrit, and the consequent need to "re-educate" the citizenry (See the news report in The Telegraph on 8 September 2015 under the title "Centre targets 'cultural pollution'"; see also the discussion in The Scroll on 12 September 2015 under the title "Thank you, minister, for talking about the ‘cultural pollution’ in India").

Relational risk is: (a) risk *from* relationships (to economies, productivity, sustainability etc.) as well as (b) risk *to* relationships (from organizational practice and government policy) - clearly there is a feedback loop from (b) to (a); and (c) any and all risk *seen through* the lens of relationships. Such risks can be in individual life, in clubs/associations/villages/towns, in nations, in civil society, in companies or in the world as a whole. Put differently: there is a relational dimension to every kind of risk - even to the risks involved in science and technology. So risk is an inherently relational issue, at least in the view of the Relational Thinking movement. While some adverse events have purely natural causes, most are a product of human interaction. Moreover, in every case, the impact of risk is absorbed, transmitted, magnified and/or mitigated through networks of relationships.

The term "Relational Analytics" and its cognates are used in various ways and contexts: to analyze, for example, the person-to-person relationship (which is the domain of psychology and sociology), or to analyze the relationship between digits and numbers (which is the domain of mathematics and computing). However, the term has become best known for measuring the dynamics of the relationships between entities - e.g. between an organisation and its investors and/or employees and/or suppliers and/or customers and/or surrounding community and/ or government. Alternatively between one part of an organisation and another - e.g. between the Board of an organisation and the Executive Team. This has applications e.g. in risk management, and productivity enhancement. In this sense, "Relational Analytics" is a dimension of business analytics or, more precisely, business intelligence.

The generation of young (or not so young) people which inherits substantial wealth, often by inheriting well-established businesses.

The Indian Institutes of Technology are India's premier engineering and technical universities, started with foreign collaboration from the 1950s onwards. The graduates are highly regarded and, even before they graduate, the whole of the graduating classes are usually snapped up by Silicon Valley firms. Till 2015, they have been autonomous of whichever political party has been in government. The current Indian government now proposes to bring the IITs (as they are called) under its political control - giving rise to the anxiety that these premier institutions will be dumbed down.

Back the BBC is the campaign to protect the BBC, the UK's public-service broadcaster, from destruction (aka privatisation or commercialisation) by the current UK government. Founded in 1922, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation. It is the second largest broadcasting organisation in the world by number of employees, with over 20,000 staff. Established under a Royal Charter, it is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British entities (households, companies, and organisations) that are able to receive or record live television broadcasts. In 2015, the fee amounts to only a fraction of one British Pound (that is, 40 pence) per day, and is used to fund all of the BBC's radio, TV, and online services, which cover not only the whole of the UK, but also much of the world (in 28 languages) through the BBC World Service.

Shireen (also spelt "Shirin") Dalvi is the Editor of the Urdu Language newspaper, Avadhnama, which published a Charlie Hebdo cover in early 2015. Since then, Shirin Dalvi has been ostracised by the Urdu media and by Indian muslims. #ShirinDalviForAshokChakra is the campaign for requesting the Government of India to bestow on her the Ashok Chakra, the highest recognition by the Indian Government for bravery in peacetime.

Jan Hus was the founder of the modern world: universal literacy, the knowledge explosion, modern science, the work ethic, the rise of the middle class, the rights of women, freedom of conscience, tolerance - all go back to the work of this man who lived and worked in Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic, from 1369 to 1415. He stands tall in the list of Reformers who struggled, and even went to the extent of sacrificing their lives, in order to create the best of what is admirable in our world today.

India's national motto, derived from #JanHus's motto, which is now also on the Czech national flag: "Pravda Vitezi"

Currently popular form of "zero-sum" capitalism in which, due to the dilution of the value of money (and related reasons), financial rewards are evidently less and less tied to merit, intelligence and effort, while being tied apparently more and more to sheer chance.

Currently popular form of "capitalism" in which the resources and privileges of a country are handed over to cronies of the "elected leaders"

Discussion on the question: are governments around the world increasingly ganging up against citizens?

India's first and so far only fully dual-language (Hindi-English) magazine, published monthly from New Delhi.

Word used in India to mean individual, group or mass belonging to the MAJORITY of the population. The word "Bahujan" brings together the untouchables, the lower castes, the religious minorities, and the tribals. These constitute roughly 77% of India's population.

Relational Thinking (RT) contrasts with the kind of concepts that currently dominate our global economic and political structures, which make unrealistic assumptions: They treat people mainly as decision-making units. They see money as the most effective measure of value. They reduce relationships to political or economic connections. If we want to survive the challenges of the 21st century, we will have to work with people as they are, not as political and economic theorists want them to be. Relational Thinking opens up a genuinely new way of reforming what governments and organizations do. It also provides a compass for individual action. So where does it start? 1. People are more than individuals: The ideals of individual freedom and individual rights are huge achievements. But they don’t go far enough. It’s not our individuality that makes us human. Nor is it our membership of a social class. Yes, we are all individuals who make decisions – but we are also individuals uniquely and inseparably connected to others. Learning, personality, success, even identity are all relational products. Start from there, and you make possible a different kind of world. Relational Education puts relationships at the center of schooling and the curriculum. Relational Democracy develops politics in way that goes beyond occasionally putting a cross on a ballot paper. Relational Justice asks how we can use relationships to empower victims, rescue criminals, and reduce crime. 2. Wealth means more than money: We’ve got into the habit of measuring things with money. But having money doesn’t correlate with happiness in any straightforward way: slum kids can be happy while rich people can be miserable. And though Western society isn’t short of cash, it is suffering a severe decline in relational capital. This imposes huge costs. Yet governments struggle to address relational issues directly because governments deal mainly in budget allocations. As they focus on short-term growth, they often sideline the relational infrastructure on which growth depends. Relational Thinking takes a broader view of value. Relational Poverty explores the relational causes of poverty and seeks innovative ways of changing the welfare system. Relational Pensions and Relational Lifestyle bring relationships to the center of personal priorities and planning. Relational Finance looks for forms of financial connection based on shared equity rather than debt. 3. Society needs more than connections: This is a crucial issue. Markets and media are great at connecting us. But connections aren’t relationships. They don’t bring people close enough relationally either to trust one another or to cooperate optimally in a crisis. For Relational Thinking, the goal isn’t for people to try harder at being nice. It’s to change the kinds of linkages we create through our laws, our organizations, and our personal decisions. Relational Business looks at company structures, and how things like limited liability influence the behavior of stakeholders. Relational Analytics provides companies and organizations with the Relational Proximity FrameworkTM for analyzing and improving stakeholder relationships. Relational Healthcare and Relational Justice explore how Relational Proximity can be used to improve outcomes in key institutions.

Anything to do with the Relational Thinking Movement and the Relational Thinking Network