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.

Indigenous Food: The Not-So-Secret Ingredient For Sustainability

Consumption of uncultivated foods in rural communities could help achieve food security and nutritionally diverse, sustainable diets!

How Sumi Nagas’ traditional knowledge helps them navigate nature’s vagaries

Elders in the community say that the ecological indicators help them predict weather even in a changing climate.

Defenders Of The Forest: How Forest Dwelling-Communities Of Gondia Are Regenerating Forests

"We know for a fact that if our forests are saved, our future generation is safe."

The man who speaks with his heart

Nazar Bandhu, a native of Muvattupuzha, who leads the village of Chakla in West Bengal to self-sufficiency through Zero Foundation.

A Hope-fueled flight

How a primary school in a nook of Himachal Pradesh is acknowledging holistic development of children by building playful pedagogies.

If Nature was our Teacher, would things be different?

Syamantak, a commune that consciously connects open learning and sustainable living in a rural space, and embodies the art of community participation.

Pandemic Resilience in North East India

Stories from the Northeast bring a nuanced perspective of alternatives where people devised their unique norms of delivery mechanisms for food, health and income generation.

महामारी में फुटपाथ की जिंदगी (in Hindi)

दिल्ली के हाशिये पर रहनेवाले जरूरतमंद लोगों का दुख-दर्द साझा किया, उनके भोजन, राशन और इलाज में मदद की।

The Kadar Community Chart An Inspirational Journey Of Resilience As They Take Back Their Forests

The Kadars of Tamil Nadu, displaced from their ancestral forests in 2019, have fought hard to win back what is rightfully theirs.