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.

Lessons in caring

Compassionate people in many communities have started becoming proxy families of the mentally ill and homeless.

Experiencing the Banni through Hodka

Shaam-e-Sarhad is a small enterprise, promoting niche tourism as opposed to mass tourism that focuses on the heritage of the Banni area.

What an idea!

Perhaps most promising was the ‘fish bowl’ session where anyone seeking or offering collaboration stepped into the middle and invited potential collaborators to discuss taking their ideas forward together.

மக்கள் வளர்வதற்காகக் காடுகள் பெருகட்டும் (in Tamil)

ஆரோவில் சாதனா வனம்: வரண்ட நிலத்தில் வளர்க்கப்பட்ட காடுகளும், மக்கள் மேம்படுவதற்கு ஏற்ற சமூகச்சூழலும், ஈகைப் பொருளாதாரமும் அமையப்பெற்ற இடம்

Greens launch website on sustainability

Projects that demonstrate ecological sustainability or social well being and justice are of course welcomed. But some initiatives have also demonstrated the democratic process in operation at the grassroots.

Website to improve farmers’ lifestyle

A website dedicated to the creative work that people across India are doing as alternatives to the current models of destructive development and self-promoting governance

The Man Who Carved A Road Through The Mountain So His People Could Reach A Doctor In Time

"If it took all my life now, I would carve us a road through the mountain.”

Let’s salute those who are doing something positive

It was a meeting ... of people who were doing something positive rather than merely cribbing about the state of the world.

More forests to grow people

When we practice giving without expectation, those who experience the abundance will share it with more people, restoring the flow of life ...