2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/192796I describe several broad features of a programme to understand gravity as an emergent, long wavelength, phenomenon (like elasticity) and discuss one concrete framework for realizing this paradigm in the backdrop of several recent results.11 p; AIP stylefiles included; Summary of several plenary talks in the conferences including XXIII Texas Symposium in Relativistic Astrophysics (Melbourne, Dec, 06); IAGRG Meeting (Delhi, Feb, 07); International workshop on theoretical high energy physics (Roorkee, Mar, 2007); to appear in the proceedings of IWTHEPGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyAstrophysicsHigh Energy Physics - Theorytext