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.

विवाह : एक आत्मीय परियोजना (in Hindi)

एक विनम्र भेंट - उन अविस्मरणीय क्षणों की, जो सामुदायिक स्थानों के सह-निर्माण में एक साथ व्यतीत किये जाते हैं और एक समुदाय के मूलभूत अनुभव के द्योतक हैं।

This Bengaluru Artist Is Using Art To Draw Attention To Potholes & Provoke The Govt Into Action

Baadal Nanjundaswamy has been making art around current civic issues for the past decade.

मालवा के कबीर से एक मुलाकात (In Hindi)

कबीर भजनों के साथ साथ बातचीत करना, चाय पीना, दोस्ती बढ़ाना और अपने दुख-दर्दों को आपस में बांटना और इन भजनों में इसके समाधान ढूंढ़ना, लोगों को इससे जोड़ता है।

Environmental & Economic Sustainability, Social Harmony and Social Transmutation : an example towards Self-rule/Swaraj

On an average, around one hundred people worked daily for around one and a half years to dig the canal through the mountain.

Indigenous Peoples Day: Through the Lens of Women

Sensing the urgency to document traditional knowledge that elders possess, Chirhah has helped make films like ‘Millet-Securing livelihoods’

In the sculptures of these two artists, you can see the burning tragedy of Bastar

Shantibai and Rajkumar’s works are testimonies to the plight of a people caught in a crossfire.

On a mission with a vision

The participants are on tandem cycles, each with one able-bodied cyclist and a person with disability, headed for Khardung La.

From Close Quarters: Protecting an Adivasi Culture the State Wants to Destroy

The unrest in and around Bastar is fundamentally about respect, dignity and trust in our behaviour towards other people

The teddy bear courts: Goa’s pioneering children’s courtroom

The battle at the Goa Children’s Court is to protect the integrity of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and to continually innovate.