Health and Hygiene
Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.
Statement Condemning Detention of Ladakhi Padyatris (marchers) at Singhu Border
We demand immediate release of all marchers, withdrawal of prohibitory orders and opening up of a genuinely sensitive dialogue with the Ladakh climate marchers.
The US took decades to act against these toxic chemicals. India should not wait
“From dump sites to groundwater, cookware to wastewater, these persistent chemicals have infiltrated every facet of the surroundings,” an IIT Madras study stated.
एकल महिलाओं को स्वावलंबी बनाने की पहल (in Hindi)
महिलाओं के लिए ऐसा मंच उपलब्ध कराना जिसमें वे एक साथ आ सकें, उनका दुख-दर्द बांट सकें, एक दूसरे से जुड़ सकें, खुलकर बात कर सकें और आपस में अनुभव साझा कर सकें।
Farmers pin hopes on new agricultural calendar to weather climate variabilities
Wayanad farmers create a new agricultural calendar harnessing traditional farming knowledge in a bid to adapt to climate change.
India’s 2024 Election Results Should Spur a Renewed Movement Towards Justice, Equity, and Sustainability
From the perspective of the VSGA, which represent a wide section of the country’s regions and peoples, these results are a sign that Indian democracy is alive, kicking and maturing.
अच्छी सेहत के लिए साइकिल जरूरी (In Hindi)
साइकिल एक बहु उपयोगी वाहन है। इसकी उपयोगिता कई रचनात्मक कामों में भी सामने आती रही है।
Re-envisioning Riverscapes and Urban Riverfronts in India: Toward Ecological and Social Harmony
Rights of Nature is emerging as a governance approach for protecting our ecosystems and their inhabitants.
The Election Horizon and The Rainbow
The rainbow has been a symbol of the queer community. It is natural and beautiful but it is also rare. Can we see the rainbow in India’s national election horizon?
Walking along the Indus
Our existential challenge is how we can nurture ethics of care and bring discourse that can alter the way we see the rest of nature.