Society, Culture and Peace

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.

Small but significant changes for gender-inclusive cities

Ideas and toolkits for designing gender-inclusive cities are aplenty; it is for planners and governments to act.

Naming Ants and Seashells

On the role of local nature on children’s language acquisition and the role of language in protecting our living world

Bioregionalism Satsang

The biggest attraction of bioregionalism is its giving co-space to human practices that have co-evolved with the local environment and its constraints to find a more sane lifestyle.

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.

India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground

Government policy would benefit from encouraging local and ecologically-appropriate oil-bearing crops rather than massively supporting oil palm.

निराशा के आलम में प्रेरणा का संगम (In Hindi)

पारंपरिक स्वशासन औऱ नई पंचायती राज जैसी व्यवस्थाओं में समानताएं व अंतर को खोजना, और लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था को मजबूत करना जरूरी है।

Green movements as guardians of Pune’s nature

Individual and collective actions by Punekars to save the city’s ecological heritage demonstrate people’s power to make significant environmental and social interventions.

In India, peace building goes ultimate

Ultimate Frisbee is sparking an opportunity for a bottom-up peace-building approach and strengthening social cohesion and gender equality in Assam. 

Approaching Life Sustainably: Through the process lens

Let’s not shy away from understanding the full story behind what we consume.