When you know where you are....TERI

As i write this, i also ponder upon a silly question, is this really a “BLOG”? Or maybe just i am too used to writing whatever comes to my MIND. The answer is maybe, i don’t know. May be i am trying to say something that has no meaning for anyone who is reading this, but  at this risk too...i wish to continue writing. 

In this “virtually developing” country, where development is no less than money making business, where policies are malformed and officials are lying on the bed of greed, makes me grope for an answer to a question that “ IS there anybody really working wise and hard , that will help the world navigate through this unruly activities? “ What happens to our environment in this due course of so called developmental journey. Is environment or Sustainability anywhere in picture?

I always thought, the answer is no. There is none. But as they say, “Hard work paves its way through, when talent stops working”. There are knowledge pools around us which are pre-assumed to be the best saviours of environment and “US” per say. But there are few organisations, which have evolved over a period of time with passion to succeed, let me correct my self, not just succeed but make it a habit to succeed...successfully...!!! And i am proud to be a part of one such organisation- TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute.  With Dr Pachauri’s Vision, the world is not only provided with quality research on myriad of issues and aspects but also, interventions that are really capable of a change. As very aptly said, “ We need to be the change which we want to see in this world” , TERI lives with it.

Not many organisations do what they preach and very few never preach but  just do,  which makes no sense either, as it never reach the masses. But TERI is one organisation which has hit the right chord and is able to manage both. Anybody who doubts this, for them i not just have the plethora of intellectual and pioneering work that TERI has been disseminating at various levels, but another marvel of its experiments would be Gual Pahari, Gurgaon, where TERI has not only translated the philosophies of Solar Passive Architecture on Ground but also stands tall as an epitome of Sustainability in itself. With innovative techniques and sustainable solutions executed, makes us believe that  if there is a strong will, change will follow.

Thats when i realised i better know where i am. Because knowing where you are makes you realise what you ought to be & generates a passion to perform better every day.