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.

Community radio as a phenomenon: Winning hertz

In today’s world of converged media, radio programmes have a greater reach than ever before as they are shared on social media sites.

Onathallu, the Martial Art Game of Central Kerala

Heritage from the banks of a Kerala river: a martial art form - Onathallu

Surviving through Ages

Can trees survive with roots immersed permanently in water? For hundreds of years?? And human communities have protected them?

There is so much to explore in the world of tubers

The tuber stall led by Lakshmi Siddhi registered sales worth ₹11,000!

Sikkim allows people to forge fraternal ties with trees

Rules prohibit felling or damage to any such tree and point out that such violation shall be treated as a forest offence.

T.M. Krishna’s Song in Solidarity with Chennai’s Endangered Creek

For the first time ever, a matter of public concern has been rendered in Carnatic music.

वैकल्पिक समाज की तलाश (in Hindi)

संगम की सोच है कि भविष्य कैसा होगा। समाज, संस्कृति, राजनीति पर क्या सोच होगी। क्या सामूहिक दृष्टिकोण व मूल्य होंगे। इनकी तलाश ही विकल्प संगम की कोशिश है।

थार की कसीदाकारी (in Hindi)

थार की कसीदाकारी से गांवों में महिलाओं के स्वयं सहायता समूह मजबूत बन गए हैं, वे बैंकों से आदान-प्रदान करती हैं।

‘Save Farmer’ land art by Swathi and Vijay: Reaping the art we sow

Farmers have neither guarantee nor insurance on their crop. Things are often out of their control. And these people are a basis of our economy.