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.

Villagers help prevent spread of forest fire

One of the many examples where legal recognition of forest rights is leading to positive results both for people and wildlife.

Ma Bonbibi, mother to humans and tigers

The jungle goddess of the Sundarbans in West Bengal demands that Hindus and Muslims unite in upholding her pact with the animal kingdom

Vidhya Das: Fighting for poor women in India

From educating girls to empowering their mothers, Vidhya Das has spent decades defending the rights of scheduled tribes.

Music from the Margins

T.M. Krishna and traditional rural transwomen musicians gave a concert recently, bringing a new idiom to the language of music.

From U.S. to Mandya – Why a Software Engineer Left America to Run a Farmers’ Co-Op in Rural India

This software developer left the US to return to India and become a farmer. Now, he is also working for the welfare of other farmers by helping them grow and market organic produce.

झारखंड में हथकरघा क्रांति (in Hindi)

आदिवासी चित्रकला को सामने लाया जा रहा है। बेंत और बांस के सामान बनाए जा रहे हैं। लुप्त होते हाथ के हुनर को फिर से सशक्त किया जा रहा है।

Akram Feroze – The Man Behind “Cycle Natak”

Recently, in a small village one of the kid’s father comes and says to me, “I won’t stop drinking but I won’t drink at home.”

अरुणिमा : खुशियों की संभावनाएं (in Hindi)

अरुणिमा - केंद्र ने विकलांगता की तस्वीर बदली

Social Innovators in Udaipur: Interview with Santosh Padwal

In the race (of life in current times) we have forgotten the cultural heritage that we have inherited. And we want to bring it back into popular existence.