We documented Vikalp Sangam’s Institutional Memory, to capture the Vikalp Sangam process, the unique insights and learnings of the members along their journey.

This study is on the present status and relevance of the traditional governance system of Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh, with a focus on the gatpo (or lambardar/nambardar).

The paper raises questions of community and property rights and explores how climate change as a phenomenon has affected the daily lives of the fishing community over the years.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയുമായി വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ എങ്ങനെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് വായിക്കാം.

The existential challenge for all of us now is: How can we listen to the rivers again? How can we become the voice for Indus and other rivers that are being polluted, dammed, divided and diverted?

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Trained in air quality mapping, women leaders monitored air quality across 69 sites in Jharkhand, identifying 26 pollution hotspots. The local women that co-led the study took ownership of the data to drive action, prompting decision-makers to install water sprinklers, cover coal loads during transport, and set up air quality monitors in public places.

ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയുമായി വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ എങ്ങനെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് വായിക്കാം.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.

Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the industry.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.

In Kashmir, an eco-village nurtures ecological and existential regeneration. Regeneration is not only ecological work; it is inner work, where land meets soul.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

She shares remedies passed down through generations, speaks about living alongside the forest, and reflects on how tourism and changing forest policies have altered their way of life.

This Fact Sheet brings together key data on the human and economic costs of heat, with a particular focus on its links to water stress and access.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

"This is the first time I've had the opportunity to talk about climate change through art. It's giving our thoughts a canvas,"

Homestay based ecotourism, renewal of locally appropriate architecture, documentation and revalidation of traditional knowledge and skills, to reconnect with its culture and nature.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

"This is the first time I've had the opportunity to talk about climate change through art. It's giving our thoughts a canvas,"

Women from Rabha tribe in Andu Basti forest village of West Bengal are preserving their community practices by running learning centres, rejuvenating unused common land, and taking pioneering decision-making in cropping

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.

Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the industry.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.

Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the industry.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Pastoralists stitch together access to gauchars, vidis and forest lands. They pay where they must, negotiate where rules are unclear, and absorb the cost when grazing lands degrade or disappear.

Bioregionalism stems from a simple premise that ecological systems and political borders rarely coincide, and governance works better when it reflects the landscapes and communities that hold a region together.

Exploring Alternatives is an interactive journey through ideas, values, and practices that challenge dominant models of development.

Men dominate the cardamom trade that is worth crores but it is women’s labour and agricultural knowledge that holds up the industry.

"This is the first time I've had the opportunity to talk about climate change through art. It's giving our thoughts a canvas,"

She shares remedies passed down through generations, speaks about living alongside the forest, and reflects on how tourism and changing forest policies have altered their way of life.

Homestay based ecotourism, renewal of locally appropriate architecture, documentation and revalidation of traditional knowledge and skills, to reconnect with its culture and nature.

The library is a lifestyle they have developed which exhibits their mindful and responsible way of living. It is not just limited to the rural areas or villages but something every child has a right to receive.