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.

Goonj Initiative Helps Bihar Villagers Build Bamboo Bridge Amid Floods

With 250 pieces of bamboo sticks, the determined locals toiled for five days to build a 400-metre-long and 1.5-metre-wide bridge.

Handmade collective goes online

... to help farmers, weavers, spinners and dyers, who are all part of the cotton value chain and were affected by the pandemic

4,000 kids draw up ‘children’s manifesto’ ahead of assembly polls (Assam)

The manifesto will be presented to the current political leadership, as well as all major political parties

Springs that sustain millions

Women of Himachal's villages - no longer trudging miles to fetch safe drinking water

From concrete to jungle: cartoonist puts Mumbai’s wildlife on the map

“... in the city’s parks, or by the ... government, or in schools and colleges, and generate awareness among Mumbaikars.”

Understanding ‘Bait’: Stories from the Alpine Pastures of Jammu and Kashmir

The popularity of Bait (बैत) (traditional music) is significant due to the presence and visibility of Gojri language in public spaces.

This Diwali women farmers in Maharashtra are sowing seeds of entrepreneurship

Village women decided to make seeds out of dry vegetables and take these to the market.

Women Revive Traditional Water Sources in Uttarakhand

"... after pipelines got damaged in the 2013 floods, people started visiting these traditional sources of water once again,”

उत्तराखंड की आवाज है हेंवलवाणी (in Hindi)

स्थानीय भाषा गढ़वाली में हेंवलवाणी सामुदायिक रेडियो के कार्यक्रम होते हैं, जिनका मुख्य जोर स्थानीय जरूरतें व समुदाय से जुड़े मुद्दे हैं