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.

संथाल आदिवासी बच्चों का स्कूल (in Hindi)

आदिवासी महिलाओं की उम्मीदों का स्कूल

Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Union Territory Status

Include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution (Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council also to have control)

The mothers of Nagaland are taking it upon themselves to keep the peace – yet again

To help resolve a conflict it is important for those who can reach out to rival groups to do so, as has also been done in the past.

जैविक खेती की ओर मुड़े बिरहोर (in Hindi)

जलवायु बदलाव को देखते हुए देसी बीजों की मिश्रित खेती को बढ़ावा दिया जा रहा है।कोदो, कुटकी, धान की देसी किस्में,जो कम पानी में भी पक जाती हैं।

Hill community was losing touch with its language. Then it turned to Whatsapp

They share stories, poems and songs in Runglwo, giving members a chance to learn and practise the language.

Why I wrote a book on Dalit food

In Mumbai they were introduced to supposedly iconic Maharashtrian dishes vada pav and misal - unheard of in Marathwada!

A living gene bank

Small parcels of grains from marked off plots devoted to specific varieties are handed over as seeds to interested farmers.

How to Save Forest Culture? ‘Silent’ Battle by Odisha’s Kondhs is The Right Lesson

The men, women and children from every family worked on a war footing to replant, restore and replenish the beauty of their aboriginal mother – the jungle.

After cyclone Fani, women in a migrant fishing community start resilience fund

A go-to fund created by women to take care of small expenses and activities linked to pressing needs that follow disasters.