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.

Restoring the Nilgiris habitat, one acre at a time

Who might help one to take up replanting projects for private homes, estates, government land or local schools in the Nilgiris?

Sending the Climate Change message through the Ramayana

Sita and Rama are metaphors for Prakruti (nature) and Purusha (mankind)

Insect-eating bird population drops in heavily extracted Himalayan oak forests

Encourage local communities to capitalise on the increased bird tourism in Uttarakhand by setting up homestays ...

Re-Storing Hope

People had more than enough things to spare and these items could find a new life - an excellent channel for reuse and recycle.

Indigenous Knowledge of Livestock Breeding and Management

The population has been maintained under agro-pastoral systems and represents community-based conservation of indigenous livestock

The Makeshift Huts – Indigenous Agro-pastoral Communities

Simple structure, used for shelter from weather and protection from wild animals, and also to store food. The hearth is under the elevated floor.

Swaraj Jail University, Udaipur

It is a space for the learner-inmates to connect to their deeper purpose and passion.

‘Multi-cropping has economical and agronomic benefits’

“The climate is changing and becoming hostile to farmers. Even if four-five crops survive, your food needs are met,”

Handloom saris produced with natural dyes hit the market

Will all weavers of cooperative societies in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts produce Udupi saris with natural dyes?