Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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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.
Legends of Sher Dariya (The Lion River)
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?
‘Vetal Tekdi belongs to common citizens, it is they who have protected it for the past 40 years’: Pune-based environment activist Dr Sushma Date
Sceptical of government-commissioned reports, Dr Sushma Date prefers to consult independent ecologists, hydrogeologists, urban planners and traffic experts for cross-checking the data.
कायद्याच्या चौकटीत विसर्जन (In Marathi)
सीपीसीबीच्या सुधारित विसर्जन मार्गदर्शक तत्त्वांवरील विरोधी दृष्टिकोन आणि संतुलित दृष्टिकोनासाठी कायदेशीर शोध.
India’s Food Sovereignty movement condemns the arrest of Sonam Wangchuck and demands his immediate unconditional release
The labeling of people criticising governments for their policy actions/inactions, and of those building movements against problematic policies as anti-national has no place in a democracy like India.
Ladakh violence: How government inaction on its promises on autonomy has fuelled frustration
The government needs to make clear what its intentions are – to grant Ladakh’s legitimate demands, or keep dragging its feet, risking further antagonising an already infuriated population?
STATEMENT OF CONCERN AND MOURNING WITH PEOPLE OF LADAKH
We express strong concern about the use of armed force by the local administration that led to the loss of four people and left several dozen injured. We also protest the arrest of Gandhian educationist and activist, Sonam Wangchuk
Why is the Centre dragging its feet on autonomy for Ladakh?
The Ladakh administration's decision to revoke the land lease of the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning is the latest of a series of moves aimed at suppressing a people demanding constitutional autonomy and self-governance.
Beyond the Elephant and the Blind Men: A Story of Collective Sense-Making
Vikalp Sangam answers the parable: we listen to each sector's truth to see the whole elephant of an equitable, just & sustainable future.
Remembering Dayamma: In Grief, Celebration And Protest
In Chennai, a theatre festival paid a moving tribute to a beloved trans elder and stage stalwart, pushing boundaries and transforming the stage into a space of resistance and queer joy.