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.

सिर्फ दवा से ही नहीं, समुदाय से भी इलाज (in Hindi)

यहां दवा के साथ समुदाय सहायता समूहों के जरिए इलाज किया जाता है।

What Problems Does Organic Cotton Solve?

The author tracked years of decision-making and untangled what sorts of things work, and for whom, in sustainable smallholder agriculture.

Nature’s profusion

One realizes that as an individual one is made of the fabric of the collective

Productive Efficiency Of Traditional Multiple Cropping Systems Compared To Monocultures Of Seven Crop Species: A Benchmark Study

These family farms support cereals, fruit trees, tuber plants, vines, herbs, and vertebrate and invertebrate fauna

Digital tool to monitor groundwater

Women can lead the efforts to strengthen resilience during drought-like situations

Ten years of efloraofindia

One of the biggest non-commercial citizen science efforts in the world.

Meet the man conserving otters in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats

“I am the king of Tillari River; I kill the diseased fish and maintain the health of the river system.”

When an army of women came together to revive a river

1200 people created hundreds of recharge wells and boulder checks - nearly all workers were women.

Making Informed Choices, Bleeding Clean

How conversations around sustainable menstruation were enabled in Kerala