Dear Readers,
Like many of you, I come across the "Glocal" word quite often these days. However, untill recently, I hardly had any idea of what it actually meant. Recently, two developments gave me a clearer picture of the meaning that this creatively coined word connotes.
Jodhpur is on its way to becoming a developed city with fresh Himalyan water gushing into it through IGNP pipelines and due to an enhanced strategic leverage that it now enjoys after the discovery of huge oil reserves in Barmer. In spite of knowing all this, the real experience of the "Glocal" effect arose when I chanced upon two excellent venues.
Firstly, I happened to visit National Law University, Jodhpur( I went there to pick up my mom who is a visiting Professor). While I was instructed to wait for her in the lobby, I casually strolled around and stopped next to the notice-board. I gaped at the board with my mouth wide open to learn that NLU was hosting an international conference on "Environmental Governance in The Context of Sustainable Development in India: The Case of Desert Ecosystem" sponsored by TERI, New Delhi( The Energy and Resource Institution) and KAS, New Delhi( the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a well-reputed global political foundation). The sessions were enthralling and highly captivating.
Secondly, I visited the JBF ( Jal Bhagirathi Foundation, a dynamic NGO working towards water management in the desert landscape). I was highly impressed to understand its functioning and all the immense work that it has carried out in partnership with UNDP, EU, Cooperazione Italiana etc ensuring safe drinking water to the inhabitants of remote villages of the Thar. There and then, I offered to serve this noble cause in the hope that I will get to travel, meet people and work for their amelioration in Marwar, our homeland......
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