Late (again) to Arrive in the Right Condition
Dear friends & family, children & respected elders, teachers & mentors, our collaborators, supporters & well-wishers,
Given that we are now in the 2nd quarter of 2025-26, this newsletter is late, but, as I like to say, to arrive in the right condition because beyond sharing just the superficial tips of our work, it felt paramount that we allow ourselves the time to continue cultivating a deeper culture of a collective introspection & reflection to be accountable to their depths.
To create such a culture & develop the related art~science of writing & designing is taking its due time.
Reading this Newsletter
As such, this newsletter is rich with interesting as well as important news, and with deeper insights where needed and/or possible. The following are but some of my personal pickings from such richness:
- Cultivating conditions to allow being curious, compassionate & creative (pages 1-2) offers glimpses into how we are attempting in our school to not make such a part of time & outcome bound frameworks, but, instead, focus on cultivating conditions that allow them to grow effortlessly in children & teachers, while developing in our leadership the ability to trust, listen & be patient
- While sharing that an extreme outbreak of green mold destroyed 75% of our livelihood team’s oyster mushroom harvest (page 6), we also attempted an exploration into its depths in a special essay Livelihood Development: Challenges & Opportunities (page 12)
- We had special visitors this quarter — Mrs Purnima Contractor & her team from AECED, Mumbai (page 3) & Professor Ambrish Dongre from IIM, Ahmedabad (page 4) who immersed deeply with us on matters of early child education & assessments, respectively.
- Our school was invited to share its unique journey of building a community school at a conference organized by Sunbird Trust in Majuli for govt & private school teachers where around 20 schools from Arunachal Pradesh and Majuli participated (page 4)
An Offering of Gratitude & Accountability
Even as I wonder, especially in this age of ever increasing information where we have to be mindfully selective with our attention, how many people are able to read to even skim through our newsletters, I am deeply grounded in gratitude that we are able to cultivate such richness of deep thinking & writing because it affects our action. To offer such to all those who support us, feels like deepening the layer of such accountability.
With my heartfelt gratitude,
Arjun
