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.

Nature better off with indigenous people, indicates global report

“Recognizing the knowledge, institutions and values of indigenous peoples and local communities ... enhances... nature conservation”

In Kutch, Women Are Weaving a New Future for Themselves

New energy and perspective seen in designs and products, are transforming the already flourishing Vanaat.

Weaving Transformations

In weaving carpets on a handloom is constant thought, innovation, passion, satisfaction, and dedication going into it, as well as freedom, ...

‘Phasepardhi’s and the Lesser Florican

A hunting tribe is now protecting birds, regenerating grasslands and ensuring dignified livelihoods for themselves

Reforesting the hillsides of the Himalayas

Alaap has taken on a mountain of a challenge - restoring Himalayan native forests, involving community and engaging with government

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. "