Ep. 14 Chintan Kella Alternative Forms Of Organizing (street Vendors Of India & Auroville)

Wachama Podcast ~Personal Development & Social Innovation

Dear listeners! Earlier this year for a periode of 6 months Chintan Kella was a guest researcher at Wageningen University. His main topic the alternative ways of orgnaizing. Alternative could be entirely non capitalist system however Chintan and his colleagues are studying several different layers between capitlaism and other ways of organizing. Trust is crucial element of any interaction among humans. However there is a huge difference whether the trust is based on the given word or it is based on contracts with the involvment of complicated and rigid institutions and lawyers. To dconduct the field study of these alternative forms of organizations Chintan chose the street vendors of India which is a significan portion of Indian society that is largely unregulated meanwhile it's effectiveness in supplying and distributing food and other goods is superior compared to any other organization in the Indian context. Chintan's other resarch topic is Auroville which is a township in India with the population of around 2,5 thousand people with the intention to operate without politics, religion and the role of the money is reduced significantly. Auroville was initiated based on it's mission that is just referred as: A Dream "There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasure and material enjoyment. Beauty in all its artistic forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, would be equally accessible to all; the ability to share in the joy it brings would be limited only by the capacities of each one and not by social or financial position. For in this ideal place money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood." Enjoy the show! Useful links: Full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/VTy7sRrBvc8 Wachama's website: www.wachama.org Wachama on SoundCloud: @user-545643610 Links provided by Chintan: Auroville: www.auroville.com/ Social Enterprises : www.auroville.org/contents/3371 Savi: www.auroville.org/contents/386 Denmark: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania Norway: www.liberstad.com/ Scotland: www.findhorn.org/ Italy: www.damanhur.org/en/what-is-damanhur