Stories from the grassroots | Thoughts on development
My article in today’s Bodhi Vruksha – a supplement in Vijaya Karnataka newspaper that focuses on life, living and spirituality: Bodhi Vruksha 30 Jul 2011
The English version of the article can be found here: Swami Vivekananda and my own journey
– Balu
Traditional thinking associates leadership with authority and it is intuitively interpreted as having the power to lead people and organizations to bring about the change that one desires. Occupying positions of authority reinforces this understanding and people start relying more and more on the ‘power’ that goes with the position. Over time, people tend to start having an exaggerated sense of self-importance and start having unrealistic expectations of themselves. They also begin to operate with the false conviction that they are indispensable to the ‘system’ around them and sub-consciously start taking on roles and responsibilities beyond what they are capable
Read my latest article in the August 2019 of Civil Society magazine at https://civilsocietyonline.com/column/village-voices/bridging-the-trust-deficit/
When one reads the several tweets that are flooding the social media space about the ongoing political drama in the state of Karnataka, one worries on how people are interpreting ‘Leadership’ and how they see the state being led. While one party cries foul and blames the selfish positioning of the leader & his family, another sees the hidden agenda and unwillingness of another to share power as the problem. Another party which just formed the government sees the swearing in of their ‘key architect’ as the leader who can deliver the state from ‘mis-governance’ and provide the much needed