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.

Knitting, sketching, handicrafts — quarantine’s a vacation in this Nagaland village

This picturesquely located quarantine centre comprises 14 bamboo huts, a rainwater harvesting system, and a hearth to make tea

Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job

Local bodies and activists are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment

Rajasthan tribals’ struggle for indigenous practices highlighted at U.N. event

The tribal communities in Banswara, Dungarpur and Udaipur districts earlier had a (sustainable) forest resource-based livelihood

तालाबंदी में जंगल से आती है भोजन की थाली (in Hindi)

कोविद के समय जब बाजार बंद हो गए तब जंगल ने दिया खाना और पोषण। जंगल हैं आत्मनिर्भरता के प्रतीक

The Story of Baiga Women of Kutelidadar

Addressing their ‘darr (fear)’ of dealing with state agencies, a group of Baiga women tackled their water scarcity problem

Reviving the Trinjan

An effort to empower rural women and reimagine their agency through revival of art and craft of weaving in Punjab

Children make art to save Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary

Children across cities protest against the denotification of Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, during the lockdown, by making art

चिन्हारी: द यंग इंडिया (in Hindi)

नव युवतियों का यह  संगठन कर रहा है अपनी और अपने सपनों  की आत्मनिर्भरता की खोज

“We Fought For The Right to Our Land and Forests with a Handful of Rice”: An Interview with Anna Kujur

We went from village to village to create awareness among the people to enable them to assert their rights over their land and forest.