Episode 5: Rural Development & Livelihood

This episode brings forth the landscape of the Rural and Urban divide through the lens of Suhas Ramegowda, Co-founder, IndianYards who personally transformed not only himself but his wife and son as well to live a life committed to simplicity. Living a simple life is about paring back so that you have space to breathe. It’s about doing with less because you realize that having more and doing more doesn’t lead to happiness. It’s about finding joys in the simple things, and being content with solitude, quiet, contemplation and savoring the moment. And as a gradual process, they have discovered the joy of participating in community development without the associated tags of Rural Development, Employment and Entrepreneurship. There is a great lot to learn here and the most important one is the Enrichment and Empowerment of Lives. How can we make people feel valued anywhere and hence begin to Contribute more than they Consume is the Challenge of Sustainable Growth? We must engage in a dialog as Societies and Communities to resolve this Conflict between Exploitation and Empowerment through the shift in the Structures, Synergies and Systems. At its core, we must find a way to orchestrate Value, Intellectual and Human Capital to progress life; be it in a rural or urban setting without creating dysfunction to the settings that are unique to both. We must evolve a balance in the spatial distribution of the population that is conducive to Social Justice.