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.

Hakki Pikki: The global nomads of Karnataka 

The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.

For a better Bengaluru: Various solutions discussed at citizens’ meet-up

Through the exchange of concerns, brainstorming solutions, and emphasising citizen-authority cooperation, the event demonstrated how hypothetical ideas can become a reality.

भारत का वैकल्पिक भविष्य: कुछ झलक (In Hindi)

यह दो लेख ‘ऑल्टेर्नेटिव फ्युचर्स: इन्डिया अन्शैकल्ड’ किताब जो २०१७ में छपी थी, से लिये व अनुवादित किये गये हैं।

Weaving together Threads of Then and Now

Conservation of traditional Himachali designs, and promotion of rural and women development through skill development, employment generation and independence

हरियाली से स्वावलंबी बनता गांव (In Hindi)

पेड़ लगाने, जल संरक्षण, जैविक खेती इत्यादि काम करने से यह विस्थापित गांव आत्मनिर्भर बन रहा है|

Emancipation through Education: Movement for Scavenger Community

Eradication of caste violence and discriminatory attitude towards the scavenger community by facilitating leadership education.

Gandhi’s Constitution for a post-industrial civilization

Shriman Narayan Agarwal wrote Gandhi's Constitution (1945-46); the search for new 'economy of friendship', 'eco friendly appropriate technologies' was essential.

झारखंड में छोटे बच्चों के लिए अनूठी पहल (In Hindi)

बच्चों के पोषण व सेहत का कार्यक्रम है बा बागान, जो 3 साल से कम उम्र के बच्चों के लिए झूलाघर है, वे वहां रहते हैं, खाते हैं, खेलते हैं, वहीं उनके माता-पिता भी उन्हें यहां छोड़कर अपने काम कर रहे हैं

Why this Maharashtra village is fighting for the long forgotten Gramdan Act?

Dec 2022, Mendha (Lekha), a village deep inside the forest area of Gadchiroli, moved the Nagpur bench of the Bombay HC for implementing Gramdan, a historic act born out of a movement by Vinoba Bhave