Politics

People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency

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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.

Gandhi’s Constitution for a post-industrial civilization

Shriman Narayan Agarwal wrote Gandhi's Constitution (1945-46); the search for new 'economy of friendship', 'eco friendly appropriate technologies' was essential.

Why this Maharashtra village is fighting for the long forgotten Gramdan Act?

Dec 2022, Mendha (Lekha), a village deep inside the forest area of Gadchiroli, moved the Nagpur bench of the Bombay HC for implementing Gramdan, a historic act born out of a movement by Vinoba Bhave

‘Chhu-med’- No Water and the ‘imaginary of hope’: Living in-between Climate Change and Adaptation, Development and Sustainability, Apathy and Hope.

How communities in Ladakh survive an intense water crisis despite institutional apathy and critical climate change, by coming together through a culture’s ‘Imaginary of Hope’.

How India’s First ‘Green Village’ Turned Hunters Into Conservationists

The hunters-turned-conservationists of Khonoma are continuing to cultivate their community-led approach to protecting their heritage.

Rebuilding the fourth pillar of democracy

A graphic narrative to show how the medium can be revolutionised to dismantle the power and privilege of corporate-owned and government-controlled media.

First person: In the battle to reclaim Hinduism from Hindutva, a pilgrimage of love

“The rise of populist nationalism, and especially those versions that clothe themselves in religious colours, requires a critique from the same religious traditions,” Anantanand Rambachan

आदिवासी इतिहास का नया अध्याय (In Hindi)

भारत शायद विश्व के उन चुनिंदा देशों में है जहां जंगल-जमीन की स्वाधीनता और स्वायत्तता के सफल आंदोलनों का इतिहास - अकादमिक अथवा शैक्षणिक संस्थाओं में लगभग हाशिये पर है

Fight with Care [Ambedkar Jayanti]

FIGHT WITH CARE brings you the voices of fisherwomen who maintain this delicate ecosystem through everyday acts of care.

Balika Panchayat: The Story of Kunariya

The Balika Panchayat of Kunariya aims to empower women in the active functioning of the Gram Panchayat.