Society, Culture and Peace
Enhancing socio-cultural well-being, ensuring justice and equity
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Enhancing socio-cultural well-being, ensuring justice and equity
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Featured here are initiatives to enhance social and cultural aspects of human life: the revival and progressive use of visual, performing, and other arts, of the myriad crafts of the country, of threatened or submerged languages, of food and cuisine diversity, and other such cultural traits and processes. They also cover the various struggles and constructive movements to achieve social justice, to reduce inequalities and inequities of various kinds including caste, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion, and to create dignity in living for those currently oppressed and exploited. Finally, they include movements to generate ethical living and thinking, and spread values such as simplicity, honesty, frugality, and tolerance.
Manipur: a statement of concern and suggestions for peaceful resolution
Our response to the Manipur crisis is based on the fundamental principles of peace and of the wellbeing of all people and of the earth and all its life.
TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT
It is an initiative or model that refers to grassroots community projects. The aim is to create the means for sustainable self-sufficiency at the local level to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
Hakki Pikki: The global nomads of Karnataka
The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.
For a better Bengaluru: Various solutions discussed at citizens’ meet-up
Through the exchange of concerns, brainstorming solutions, and emphasising citizen-authority cooperation, the event demonstrated how hypothetical ideas can become a reality.
भारत का वैकल्पिक भविष्य: कुछ झलक (In Hindi)
यह दो लेख ‘ऑल्टेर्नेटिव फ्युचर्स: इन्डिया अन्शैकल्ड’ किताब जो २०१७ में छपी थी, से लिये व अनुवादित किये गये हैं।
Weaving together Threads of Then and Now
Conservation of traditional Himachali designs, and promotion of rural and women development through skill development, employment generation and independence
हरियाली से स्वावलंबी बनता गांव (In Hindi)
पेड़ लगाने, जल संरक्षण, जैविक खेती इत्यादि काम करने से यह विस्थापित गांव आत्मनिर्भर बन रहा है|
Emancipation through Education: Movement for Scavenger Community
Eradication of caste violence and discriminatory attitude towards the scavenger community by facilitating leadership education.
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.