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.

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

Kerala artistes spread awareness on farmer rights

Samskarika Sahithi has become the first cultural body to come out creatively in support of the striking farmers.

Where Camels Take to the Sea

How will all of those kharais fare in a region that has become less hospitable to them?

Learning from Dalit Women fighting for land rights in Punjab

Solidarity brought a renewed sense of hope around the future of agriculture and autonomy of farmers in the region

Transformations – Wellbeing

In Korchi taluka, villages are moving towards transformation in multiple spheres, and are re-defining development and wellbeing