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.

Weaving Threads of Art & Identity: A Kachchh Experience

Preservation of traditional arts is deeply interlinked with preservation of identity and culture in the Kachchh.

It takes a village: Where religious harmony defies years of Kashmir strife

"This village is the best example of communal harmony...though Muslims are in majority, we never let our Pandit brothers feel that," says local activist and lawyer Arshad Baba

Glimpses of Kachchh Vikalp Sangam

The sixth Vikalp Sangam gathering was organised at Bhuj by local groups and individuals ...

Reviving a River, Reviving a Lost Culture

Tribal elders in downstream communities seek restoration of Myntdu River that has been destroyed by decades of coal mining.

Art under the open sky

The village's first ‘land art’ has been created by growing leafy vegetables in the shape of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face, and a slogan

It takes two to keep this dying tradition alive

The Mandri is made of natural materials and is thick enough to serve as a light mattress.

Integral Community Building with Food in Jaipur

Looking at food in life serving ways ...

Behind the beautiful forevers

The difference it can make for women in slums to have safe, clean sanitation facilities, the time it can free up for them, the freedom it gives them.

Dancing away from drugs

“Children who are addicted to correction fluid and alcohol fall while dancing, but it is my job to make them stand again,” he says.