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.

Channel of Goodness

Thanks to Sajit Haridas, wholesalers donate over 1,000 kg of vegetables a week to city orphanages.

Link biodiversity with the Pleasures of Food

What do Global Agrobiodiversity Hotspots have to do with Indigenous People?

Energy Empowerment – the Story of Bijli and Dharnai

The micro grid will involve about 100 kilowatts of solar panels that will supply affordable, sustainable and round the clock electricity to 350 households in Dharnai.

Mapping Mapusa Market

Mapping Mapusa Market is an inquisitive exploration into how a contemporary Indian market can be creatively mapped through art.

To build a House with a Single Bag of Cement

Is it possible to build a house with just a bag of cement? Impossible you say, but not Sourabh Phadke..check his photo story out and how he made it possible!

Society, Culture and Peace: Alternative Products

Resources Home Resources for Society, Culture and Peace: Alternative Products & Services Gestures is a livelihood…

Society, Culture and Peace: Networks

Resources Home Resources for Society Culture & Peace: Networks The Working Group of Women for Land Ownership…

Adobes at Tural

A team of locals and volunteers worked together to realize this cottage-couple in a beautiful hamlet called Tural.

Society, Culture and Peace: Tools

Resources Home Resources for Society, Culture and Peace: Tools ‘Righting Wrongs’ by Writing Resolutions…