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.

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

Teach a Girl to Farm, and Transform Her Life in the Process

By empowering West Bengali girls to grow food, their economic value is increased, making parents less likely to marry off their daughters or sell them ...

Being Down-to-Earth – from a Ladakh Diary

Work is divided between all the members of the group so that the concerned family is not overloaded with chores.