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.
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.
Rural women have resilience to cope with climate risks: study
“We found that knowledge networks of women contribute immensely to tide over the adverse effect of the risk episodes..."
Bharatavani portal offers digital dictionaries of vanishing Indian languages
The portal offers 262 unilingual and multilingual dictionaries in 50 Indian languages — all of them in a searchable format
Meet India’s first and only licensed fisherwoman, KC Rekha
India’s lone licensed deep sea fisher-woman has survived monstrous tides that toss around her flimsy 20-year-old vessel.
The Newtons of Gadchiroli: tribals rise to power in local body polls
The battle these elected representatives are waging against indiscriminate mining, and for tribal rights ...
A theatre group in Bengaluru invited Narendra Modi to watch a play that protests GST
As part of a Tax Denial Satyagraha, the Graam Seva Sangh did not charge GST on the tickets.