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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.
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Gandhi and green democracy: The evolution of eco-Swaraj
Swaraj - my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community
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Invitation to join Vikalp Sutra
Open to organisations, institutions, government agencies, businesses, support groups, networks, and individuals
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Young activist aims to bring India’s tribal wisdom to the climate fight
Her strong work in advocacy and research, promoting the traditional knowledge and cultural practices of indigenous communities.
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हाथीपावा : श्रमदान से बदली सूरत (in Hindi)
सहयोग की परंपरा हलमा कार्यक्रम में 5 हजार से ज्यादा ग्रामीणों ने अपने खर्च पर झाबुआ पहुंचकर पांच घंटे तक श्रमदान किया।
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Reviving tradition with new mandate: Shivji ka HALMA
Shivji ka Halma! To quench the thirst of Mother Earth, an ancient tradition of the Bhil tribe, re- cast.
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How self-help groups in rural Odisha helped both farmers and consumers during lockdown
As the lockdown is relaxed, in Kalimela some seven or eight rickshaws still operate, showing the sustainability of the model.
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Kibber’s snow leopards
With efforts, people came to accept snow leopards and gradually the animals grew in number.
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Meet the Indian Scientist Who Gave the Greater Adjutant Stork an Image Makeover
A community event marks the storks’ breeding season - it’s a baby shower for Greater Adjutants
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सौर ऊर्जा से रोशन होते आदिवासी गांव (in Hindi)
जो महिलाएं कभी घर से बाहर निकली थीं, वे गांव गांव जाकर सोलर बल्ब की मरम्मत कर रही हैं।