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.

The Handmade Symposium

Part of the shift towards lesser dependence on machine technology - a planned, self-motivated and civilized way of rebuilding the current system.

Patthargarhi: Inside India’s Adivasistan

... the Adivasi-led exclusionist movement spread across hundreds of tribal villages in several states, including Jharkhand, Odisha and MP.

Mirza Ghalib’s Soulful Poetry comes Alive at this iconic Kolkata Street

Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation has turned Mirza Ghalib street into a living museum to celebrate the famous Urdu Poet's 221st birth anniversary.

Mumbai sighting of Olive Ridley hatchlings may not be as rare as imagined

It is entirely possible that it is only due to the regular clean-up of this 2.5-km-long beach (since 2015) that the turtles have returned.

The little fish in big rivers

Across the region, fish is always prepared in combination with local herbs, ferns, flowers and seasonal vegetables.

Gained in Translation: Some necessary superstitions

a grove belonging to this goddess, or the woods belonging to some snake or ghost - folklore is replete with forest-saving superstitions

Todas: The Naturalistic People

The values these people espouse are linked to the fact that their sacred homeland is now at the heart of India’s very first biosphere reserve.

With Sickle and Stick They Saved a Forest

A story of transformation of village women into an unwavering collective which can stand for its rights and for values they cherish.

Sunder Nursery in full bloom

Spaces for families to enjoy a picnic, soak in some culture at the amphitheatre, marvel at the flora and fauna and use for exercise.