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.

Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam Concludes with Resolve to Promote Development Alternatives

... to promote practices and concepts that help achieve human well-being based on ecological sustainability and socio-economic equity and justice.

सध्याच्या विकासाच्या पर्यायांचा पाठपुरावा करण्याचा निर्धार करून ‘महाराष्ट्र विकल्प संगम’ची सांगता (in Marathi)

कोणीही आपल्या मूलभूत गरजांपासून वंचित होणार नाही, व आपण सगळ्यांसाठी समता व न्याय मिळविण्याच्या दृष्टीने प्रयत्नशील असू.

In the lion’s den: The Indian women who answer cat calls

For women forest guards working in India's Gir sanctuary, the only home to Asiatic lions, protecting and rescuing big cats is all in a day's work.

Celebrating Ravan

As the rest of the country burns effigies of Ravan, the writer visits a Gond village in Maharashtra where the ten-headed king is worshipped as god.

A nomads’ legend keeps the Indian wolf alive: An unconventional conservation story

The tribesmen consider the wolf to be the brother of their ancestors ...

The nature of belief (in Lepcha language)

As hunger for growth and energy threatens a community of nature worshippers, they point to a different path towards development

The nature of belief

As hunger for growth and energy threatens a community of nature worshippers, they point to a different path towards development

Protecting snow leopards with local communities

The snow leopard was considered to be a despised pest; now it is seen as a valuable tourism asset - by Norbu, as also by scores of other villagers from places where SLC-IT has worked.

Shifting Sands: How Rural Women in India Took Mining into their Own Hands

“When I worked in the farm, I was just another labourer. Here, I am in charge. People see my work and they also see me. It is a great feeling.” -- Yepuri Mani of the Undavalli women's mining group in Andhra Pradesh