The point of a moonshot objective such a climate change is not to fulfil the objectives at one go, make increments furiously towards generating a critical mass while taking care of the immediate concerns, and the ramifications such as floods is happening right now.

There is often an option to press the F5 button, in our lives only if we can learn from the past yet not carry forward the residues which tend to calcify around the memory arteries, that tend to shape the contours itself.

The point of learning is to take you from point A to B to build capacity to deliver work, which takes conceptual understanding, tactical skills, and the strategic mindset. There is too much emphasis on the correct credentials rather than ability to deliver.

I find it meaningful to build initiatives with/for impact focused entrepreneurs, academics, and civil society actors over the past decade plus as configuring networks, forging partnerships, winning business is a specific expertise and connecting the dots is vital for solutions for wicked problems such as climate change across scales, modern slavery in global supply chains, and migrant worker histories of the Indian Ocean, which are not bothered to be included.

Subject Matter Experts need wider networks and expertise to create actionable solutions as sometimes the blinkered focus is limiting to foster change.

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Scale and Resilience are interrelated and having an ‘anti fragile’ framework requires a distinct understanding from growth.

Climate migration will be a crucial issue, the inequities will be mapped in adaptation outcomes. The rich and the vulnerable will have different norms of adaptation.

Climate Tech is awaiting the Model T moment as no amount of adaptation will work unless it is as convenient as an app. The approach which the knowledge broker’s aka consultants is anchored in compliance and performance rather than anticipatory and predictive. The community lens is the LCM in the just transition paradigm. ESG is an ethics filter and has its utility in risk mapping for sustainable finance.

To keep a sense of belonging and a sense of place once one has lost ‘home’ not once but twice is a challenge which transforms into a habitus, of resistance, and against forgetting.

Saras Che on the win. After watching my first cricket game on TV in years especially as it was in Ad Dubayy was something not usually noted by Gulf South Asia Watchers, as Jay Bhai and Pankaj Khimji in a Dishdasha were cheering each boundary by Jadeja and Pandya. Amdavad and Muscat and Dubai and by extension Delhi are pretty close.

A common refrain which i have heard about my writing and research for a variety of target audiences is that it is activist, and yes, we articulate ideas to push the envelope, create avenues of listening where there are one. It is about moving the needle, thinking about possibilities which are snuffed by the mundane quotidian. Not all writing takes place to fill a ‘literature gap’, as lived experiences of communities are not merely data for your h index.

Fortunately, there are spaces of digital dialogue that are emerging, so one cannot be silenced anymore or cancelled. I cannot be cancelled, as there are other sides to the story.