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.
Nagaland’s Y Nuklu Phom wins prestigious Whitley Award 2021 for his ‘biodiversity peace corridor’
Once indiscriminately hunted, the falcons have in recent years seen successful conservation by local communities.
युवाओं की कहानियां (in Hindi)
संकलित कहानियां समाज में आशा और उम्मीद जगाने की हैं
A village turns into an art hub
"Art establishments are aware of our existence. They can reach us if they want to. We will be here."
Self sufficiency in the times of Covid-19
27 percent of the total relief package amount was retained within the local economy with 'local production - local consumption'.
India Biodiversity Award 2021
The Awards initiative was started jointly by the MOEFCC, National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2012.
Khonoma Community-based Conservation initiative wins Biodiversity Award 2021
The Community has been organizing, monitoring, conserving and preserving the bio-diversity in Khonoma area for 20 years
आदिवासियों की उम्मीद थे देबजीत सारंगी (in Hindi)
आदिवासियों से सीखते हुए वे परंपरागत ज्ञान पर आधारित उनकी आजीविकाओं को पुनर्जीवित करने की कोशिश कर रहे थे।
Remembering Debjeet Sarangi, Defender of Adivasi Knowledge and Heritage
Using modern science and knowledge to explore and support local practices and wisdom.
The Kondh way of life: A tribute to Debjeet Sarangi
For him, the Kondh way of life was an ethical and environmentally responsible lifestyle.