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.
Building bridges: Why it need not be street vendors versus cities
Bazaars and street vending have existed in the oldest of societies across India, contributing to their growth and prosperity. Active participation and involvement, through statutory means, of vendors in the urban planning and governance mechanisms is needed
25 Organisations across the Western Himalayas Resolve to Work Together for Social and Ecological Issues
Such gatherings serve as a platform for diverse organisations to come together, reflect on the values that drive their work, and chart pathways for collective transformational change in the Himalayas.
Sangham Sisters: Empowerment for Ecological Justice
The film explores the relationship between ecology and democracy, with the case study of Deccan Development Society Sanghams
Small but significant changes for gender-inclusive cities
Ideas and toolkits for designing gender-inclusive cities are aplenty; it is for planners and governments to act.
Naming Ants and Seashells
On the role of local nature on children’s language acquisition and the role of language in protecting our living world
Bioregionalism Satsang
The biggest attraction of bioregionalism is its giving co-space to human practices that have co-evolved with the local environment and its constraints to find a more sane lifestyle.
Statement Condemning Detention of Ladakhi Padyatris (marchers) at Singhu Border
We demand immediate release of all marchers, withdrawal of prohibitory orders and opening up of a genuinely sensitive dialogue with the Ladakh climate marchers.
India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground
Government policy would benefit from encouraging local and ecologically-appropriate oil-bearing crops rather than massively supporting oil palm.
निराशा के आलम में प्रेरणा का संगम (In Hindi)
पारंपरिक स्वशासन औऱ नई पंचायती राज जैसी व्यवस्थाओं में समानताएं व अंतर को खोजना, और लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था को मजबूत करना जरूरी है।