Politics

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

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.

India Budget 2023: Green only in name?

All economic activity must be regenerative, in that it sustains the ecological and socio-cultural conditions it depends on for a thriving society

Joshimath Solidarity Statement – जोशीमठ के संघर्ष को समर्थन (in Hindi and English)

People who have borne the losses and been put to risk as a result of these  developments must be considered as project affected and rehabilitated and compensated fully from this

Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Constitutional Status

We strongly support the demand by the people of Ladakh, that the Government of India include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution and accord it statehood

 Can biodiversity be a political science teacher?

Exploring how education emplaced in local biodiversity can deepen values of equality, diversity and inclusivity among human beings

Pandemic Resilience in Urban India

Examples, lessons, and specific recommendations for communities, civil society organisations, and government agencies.

The Goba of Ladakh: Report

This study focuses on documenting the present status of the traditional governance system of Ladakhi villages, with a focus on the goba (or lambardar/nambardar).

India’s 1st CFR village moves HC for ‘gramdan’ status

A 100% of the landowners in the village surrendered their ownership and the whole village land came under gramdan.

Statement to Bharat Jodo Yatra

On the need for innovative, fundamental alternatives to currently dominant economic and political system.

Raja of Stances

A freelance journalist who brings the stories of tribal survival and annihilation to the outside world.