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.

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.

Unheard Echoes: How A Bangalore Restaurant Is Unique With Its Differently-Abled Staff

“They are happy to work amidst a set of people they can relate to. ... they have a lot of fun and mingle with each like members of a family.”

Women’s Farming Collectives – The Maharashtra Story

A collection of stories of hope by women where they assert themselves as farmers, as leaders.

Youngster sets up zero-budget millet hotel, says should return to older eating habits

Millets need less water to grow and live on whatever rainwater they receive.

Meet Aqui Thami from Darjeeling, whose travelling library is putting the spotlight on women’s books

... I was moved to reading more and more non-fiction which in turn enriched my work and life processes.

Food at the touch of a button: what does it mean for city planning?

For flats in large complexes serviced by multiple delivery boys over the day makes for traffic demands that appear scary!