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.
Unique study trains eyes on ‘Devrai’s
NGO, forest dept assessing sacred groves across Pune divn, encouraging residents to sustain beneficial traditions.
Millets farming, the Kondh Way
“Whatever I obtain from my field feeds my family, our community; the birds, the insects and the animals who visit my field. Everyone is full!”
Here is How India’s ‘Peace Soldiers’ Helped Prevent Many Communal Riots in India
The idea of the original Shanti Sena still lives on through individuals engaging in such actions under other banners.
Navadarshanam – An Example Of True Development Right Outside Bengaluru
Navadarshanam which has thrived for over 25 years now is a living proof that an alternate vision of development can be achieved.
By the people, for the people
It is an uncommon exercise in grassroots cinema based on volunteerism and cooperative spirit.
A Confluence of Food Alternatives!
The Sangam focused on the traditional food cultures of the Rajasthan desert area, and revival of diversity and organic production.
In Delhi, a bank run by street children for street children
It was established in 2001 to give the Delhi street children a safe haven to store money and steer them in the right direction.
Describing and intervening: Exploring the plurality of STS in India
Understanding how scientific knowledge is socially constructed, particularly in this era of post-truth and alternative facts.
How skateboarding brings social change in Madhya Pradesh village
The skatepark had just two rules—“Girls first” and “No school, no skateboarding”—the rest was left up to the kids.