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.

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.

Nature’s Apprentice: A Gudalur Story

Adivasis of Gudalur create sustainable, dignified livelihoods and gain collective control over their commons, in the face of the modern economy.

A strain of music that has flourished in India for centuries is being silenced by communalism

Muslim jogis, who were once venerated for their singing powers, are being pushed to the margins.

मालधारी समुदाय की आजीविका बचाना जलवायु समेत कई संकटों का समाधान (In Hindi)

जलवायु परिवर्तन से संबंधित कार्रवाई करते समय उनका पारंपरिक ज्ञान वैज्ञानिक ज्ञान और अनुकूलन गतिविधियों को पर्याप्त रूप से समृद्ध कर सकता है

Pastoralism: A clarion call to save the Maldhari livelihood

Their traditional knowledge can substantively enrich scientific knowledge and adaptation activities when taking climate change-related actions

Huts of knowledge: These tribal women in Odisha teach their next generation about forests through ‘kutir’ meetings

Apart from sharing traditional knowledge, the women at these meetings also spread awareness on ownership rights

Secular Theology of Religions

This essay explores the possibility of re-formulating a secular theology of religion in the contemporary context of violence, violation, and virulence in the name of religion.