An energizing conversation with student activists in Dili, hosted by Unicef Timor-Leste.
A student from Malaysia asked, "What holds young changemakers back most?"
I shared that the biggest obstacles are two-fold:
The fear inside yourself.
The fear in the older generation—that you will take their power.
Break through both. The future belongs to those who act with courage.
Human development must drive economic growth, not the other way around.
For Least Developed ountries, progress starts with tackling hunger through agtech and fair farmer prices, investing in healthcare, education and safety, decentralising power, protecting free expression, and respecting dissent.
Wealthy nations must match the benefits they derive from resources and labour with accountability on aid and climate finance.
Compassion and justice must replace extraction.
Today, I delivered a keynote at the Science for Development Summit in Dili, Timor-Leste. @JoseRamosHorta1
आज हम पूर्वी एशियाई देश तिमोर-लेस्ते की राजधानी दिल्ली पहुँचे। यहाँ आज से 'साइंस फॉर डेवलपमेंट समिट' आयोजित हो रहा है। अपने देश को भयानक हिंसा और कलह से निकालकर सौहार्द और शांति के रास्ते पर लाने वाले महामहिम राष्ट्रपति रामोस होर्ता स्वयं नोबेल पुरस्कार प्राप्तकर्ता और कई वर्षों से हमारे परिवार के मित्र हैं।
इस कार्यक्रम में विज्ञान विषयों के 16 अन्य नोबेल ��ौरिएट्स मौजूद हैं और प्रमुख अतिथि के तौर पर भूटान की राजकुमारी महामहिम सुश्री सोनम डेचन वांगचुक हैं।
राष्ट्रपति जी के निजी आवास में राजकुमारी जी, सुमेधा जी और उनके साथ अंतरंग बातचीत और भोजन के बाद उन्हें गणेश जी की संगमरमर की प्रतिमा भेंट की। इसे हमारे एक बाल मित्र गांव के पूर्व बाल सरपंच युवक ने स्वयं निर्मित की है।
@LutyensMediaIN आधा-अधूरा clip घुमाकर misleading context मत बनाओ। बात PDS राशन की चीनी की थी, retail market की नहीं। खैर, ये fake tweets ही proof हैं कि आज अमेठी स्मृति ईरानी को कितना miss कर रही है। 'स्मृति लाओ, अमेठी में विकास पाओ।'
I delivered the keynote at the UGM Annual Lecture, Nobel Laureate Series, at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
During the Q&A, a professor asked, “During our community work, it is difficult to connect and engage with people. What should we do?”
I told him: before you enter a community, leave your baggage at home.
Leave behind your degrees, positions, expertise, jargon, language, and even the logic of your urban life.
If you enter as a giver, preacher, teacher, guide or instructor, it will always be difficult to truly connect.
But when you see them as your own, and feel that you are one of them, everything changes.
That is where trust and partnership begins. That is where compassion comes alive, and where compassion transforms communities.
@k_satyarthi@toi@cinemawaleghosh Your lifelong fire of compassion has liberated over 140,000 children and continues to inspire the world—thank you for proving age is never a barrier to changing lives.
@k_satyarthi@toi@cinemawaleghosh Your lifelong fire of compassion has liberated over 140,000 children and continues to inspire the world—thank you for proving age is never a barrier to changing lives.
At 5, 11, and 27, three defining moments shaped my life’s purpose. They proved a simple truth: age is no barrier when the fire of compassion burns within.
Deeply grateful to the Times of India and Avijit Ghosh ji for capturing this journey so meaningfully. @toi@cinemawaleghosh
@k_satyarthi@rameshmashelkar It’s heartening to see Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and Dr. Mashelkar championing Compassionate AI. Placing humanity and human dignity at the core of technology is a powerful and urgently needed vision.
Grateful for your kind words and encouragement, @rameshmashelkar Bhai Sahab. Your validation of Compassionate AI means a lot to me. Thank you for your continued blessings.
Technology is not neutral, and neither are algorithms. Every system carries the assumptions, priorities, and values of the people who create it. Because AI was trained on humanity’s accumulated knowledge, it has absorbed humanity’s accumulated prejudices, inequalities, and historical injustices.
So what is solution? Read my thoughts on this, published by @ProSyn
https://t.co/QgDJikKbuV