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.

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.

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.