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.

Kerala man distributes 10,000 mud pots worth Rs 6 lakh for free to give birds water

On a mission to distribute 10,000 earthen pots for free to people willing to provide water for hapless birds reeling under the scorching heat.

Dedicated to Sex Workers, Kolkata Durga Puja Club’s Stunning Street Graffiti

"There can’t be disparity when we celebrate womanhood in the form of goddess Durga,"

For Flowing Rivers: A Prelude

The campaign has come as a lesson on the strength of combined effort: several NGO partners, grassroots groups, and the Forest Department.

Chennai’s complicated relationship with its dying rivers, as chronicled by artists

“This kind of art can make people come to the river, not take it to be just a dirty river but something that you would want to come and see. "

TEDx Talk on Vikalp Sangam

An environmentalist inspires us to think and plan for the future, to focus on the positives, on the solutions, for a better life. He inspires us to dream.

‘संगमेश्वरी’ला पुन्हा लोकाश्रय मिळवून देणारं नाटक (in Marathi)

सारे लोकव्यवहारच त्या बोलीत होत असल्यानं कला, संस्कृती, परंपरा, खाद्यसंस्कृती, उत्सव अशा विविध बाबींशी निगडित मोठा खजिनाच बोलीभाषेत असतो.

Their Will, Their Way

Pune citizens come together to save their water resources, show ways to use water sustainably.

Women come out of the woods: collectivisation in rural Maharashtra

Gadchiroli’s women first came together to protest mining in their forests. Now, they’re calling the shots

Community-based ecotourism in Ladakh promotes positive perceptions of snow leopards

Snow leopards control the population of mountain sheep and goats, preventing overgrazing and consequently enabling water retention