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.

This Kolhapur Man Runs An Organic Store Which Doesn’t Create Any Waste

"... the oils are wood-pressed, flours and powders are stone-ground, and seeds are of the heirloom variety.”

The story behind Ecoindian’s zero-waste grocery store in Chennai

Redesigning lifestyles so that all products are reused.

Hyderabad gets its first zero waste grocery store

No to Plastic! So where to have your rice, pulses, oils, cleaners, etc. packed only in paper covers, cloth bags and containers?

Meet Sasi Mausi: A sentinel of Odisha forest

Forest department officials know that the forests are in safe hands. The proof, they say, is the flourishing wildlife in the once deserted hills.

How to create an Oasis

They are replacing the invasive species - gando babool - with mixed varieties of native seeds that can withstand heavy /normal /low rainfall

Vasai volunteers recharge ponds to raise water table

Traditional Water Ponds were used only for irrigation and for recharging groundwater.

Hashtags and Human Chains, Mumbai’s Youth Join Forces for Aarey

Citizens from all walks of life have joined forces with Adivasi residents to protest, forming relationships between the two different groups.

Gogabeel is Bihar’s first community reserve

The whole community around Gogabeel supported every move to declare it as a reserve for birds and biodiversity.

फासेपारधी आणि तणमोर (in Marathi)

एक शिकारी जमात आज पक्षी-संवर्धन आणि माळरान-पुनरुज्जीवनाच्या माध्यमातून स्वतःसाठी सन्मानजनक उपजीविकेची निर्मिती करीत आहे.