Society, Culture and Peace
Enhancing socio-cultural well-being, ensuring justice and equity
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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.
Sikkim’s Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve braids nature with culture as tourism expands
" Biocultural knowledge is the secret of how communities have responded and adapted to climate change and globalisation"
Open a door: No room for discrimination and communal profiling in West Bengal
(They) intervene in cases where people complain of discrimination and mobilize the locals to eliminate discrimination.
Café Paaka, Hyderabad: ‘Organic, artisanal, slow’
To promote underground independent arts, to provide a platform for such artists and to expose the crowd to a variety of alternative genres
Festival of Uncultivated Food: Weeding out the myths
Edible plants and crops which we ignoramuses tend to dismiss as weeds, are plants that grow without their seeds being sown and alongside other crops.
When the bovines swayed to the gentle tunes
The five-feet-long Ganey wind instrument, is revered by the Kadugollas, a semi-nomadic tribe of cowherds residing on the fringes of forests.
Men in menstruation – are we addressing the elephant in the room?
... signal that men are coming forward to accept the elephant in the room.
A bhisti ruled an empire once
... doctor of dead skin, dressed in white, in this medieval mortuary with hides dangling around him from a blood-red wall, grafts a piece of skin...
Sonam Wangcuk – winner of Magsaysay award
It’s not a conventional school, but a place to pursue practical, environmental, social and traditional knowledge, values and skills.
Speech and Hearing Impaired Individuals Run the Show at This Mumbai Restaurant!
Diners are required to simply mimic these hand-gestures to place their orders.