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.
The Goba of Ladakh: Report
This study focuses on documenting the present status of the traditional governance system of Ladakhi villages, with a focus on the goba (or lambardar/nambardar).
The Art of Weaving in Lahaul’s Upper Valleys
Weaving as visual art that reflects stories about people, their communities, and their place in the universe. It symbolizes the value of creation, interconnectedness, and rejuvenation
India’s 1st CFR village moves HC for ‘gramdan’ status
A 100% of the landowners in the village surrendered their ownership and the whole village land came under gramdan.
सतपुड़ा में किसानी से जुड़ा है मड़ई मेला (In Hindi)
मड़ई मेला संस्कृति आपस में जोड़ती हैं, एक दूसरे की मदद करने की परंपराएं सिखाती हैं। यह खेती-किसानी से भी जुड़ी है।
A clash of worldviews
How the modern world can learn from Indigenous cultures
मरुभूमि में पानी की रिश्तेदारी (In Hindi)
राजस्थान के तालाब सैकड़ों सालों से सदानीरा है। इन पानीदार परंपराओं की सार-संभाल गांववालों ने की है। अब इन्हें संभालने का जिम्मा युवा और महिलाओं ने लिया है।
किचन से संभव है सेहत का ख्याल़ (in Hindi)
फूड फेस्टिवल ने लद्दाख में तेजी से बढ़ रहे पर्यटन के बीच नई राह दिखाई, जिसमें लद्दाखी खान-पान, पर्यावरण व श्रम संस्कृति का संरक्षण संभव है।
Statement to Bharat Jodo Yatra
On the need for innovative, fundamental alternatives to currently dominant economic and political system.
Sowing Seeds of Ecocentrism
Journey of Jeewika as she sets up safe spaces to converse about wellness, food, societal constructs and the world within.