The New Term Venture

The mass impact of my supplements and its rapid stabilization on a fairly small number made me seek the reasons. I then coined an apt word 'Venture'. Thus those who found it more inviting to share my knowledge and not my packages alone remained 'with' me. So also those who found the information in my results fitting to their real life situations too remained with me.

The first group was with me to learn the process of taking calculated risks by searching on their own to earn their cherished results. The other group was happy to get some useful package that was a good fit in their real life situations. Second group left me as soon as their purpose of joining me was served. But the first group always remained interactive and involved with me.

These people formed the real 'Peer Venture' group with me. We termed the group as Cell. So I got two tools with which to avoid any false commitments, but to share fully to search for new innovations by venturing with them in their ventures.

The term 'Venture' has the following salient features:

1. Every venture has some scientific principle, empirical knowledge or result information content in it.
2. Every venture always contains an element of calculated risk fitting to certain real life situations only.
3. Every venture helps to stimulate latent capabilities in the individual till then not realized by him/her.
4. Every venture when realized has the capacity to redefine and better the existing form of real life situation in a positive manner.
5. Every venture has an inherent potential to go on budding by chain reaction.

Lastly, the functions of ventures is always in network of learning exchanges. In the venture network, a new fraternity in knowledge sharing and with a trust in knowledge utilization is built up through method of experimentation by the participants.

This new venture dynamics is the real strength of the present ever prosperous, successful, stable 'Scientific Grape Revolution' in Maharashtra. We are coming to it in vivid details shortly.

My supplements in the Kirloskar magazine had other interesting outcomes. Many top level visionaries like Industrialist Dr. M. G. Bhat, veteran top leading Gandhian leader and great constructive worker Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe, Shri Tatyasaheb Kore (founder of Warana Sugar factory) came searching for me. Dr. M. G. Bhat wrote to me in his own beautiful hand writing, on a scented paper and sent in a rose colored envelope, inquiring as if a close elderly friend, if I would like to have some fair sum to propagate my ventures. From his newly founded 'Bhat Family Research Foundation' soon I got my first Ten Thousand Rupees, as participatory share in my ventures. He was also sensitive enough to advice me never to take any grant or donation or help, either through foreign funds or government or help from sponsors because such grants can tarnish my image at any time. He gave an analogy how a budding beauty in the society tarnished with small blemish on her character and then got exploited further. This advice later in my life helped me to reject outright a really very large donation from one German organization, working in India. Though at first they came on their own for Integrated Rural Development working with me on our lines, later they put conditions. They sent me large money as first money to start, before final approval from Germany. I had kept that money in the bank unused. So I was able to refund it outright with due interest paid. Annasaheb came searching for me. He used to write to his acquaintances and others to share with me any cash in any venture they would like to share. He was first to enlighten me that the real problem before the nation is 'Waste mind' and 'Waste land' and it appeared to him on seeing my ventures that if there is no 'Waste mind' there will be no 'Waste land' and my ventures had a future potential to get established and carry it all over India. Tatyasaheb Kore on hearing about my results, was with me for one full night and warned me that my results in grapes should not come in the press or I would be the enemy of vested team of very big grape growers in the state. Also, my article on grapes would be screened by university professors as unscientific, since I had worked on only one vine in the backyard and was making claims of the potential in grape cultivation which according to their own discipline was a very costly and expertise based enterprise.