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.

Uncultivated foods – The hidden treasure

They are now involved in creating Food Forest for in-situ conservation of these wild food sources inside the forest

Removing forest dwellers from areas to protect biodiversity costs more than involving them: report

"... Such examples of realising economic benefits have a direct positive impact on forest growth,”

Discoms to hand-hold residents to boost rooftop solar power in Delhi

Community-based demand aggregation programmes, which will be expanded if the pilot projects are successful.

A group of women protect Sindhudurg’s mangroves through ecotourism

Demonstrating a model of mangrove ecotourism, they have also encouraged other groups of women to adopt similar ventures.

Kolkata Has The World’s First Tram Library

Passes by 30 educational institutions; book launches, book reading sessions and literature festivals are on the cards

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