Society, Culture and Peace
Enhancing socio-cultural well-being, ensuring justice and equity
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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.
Being the Change:Jharcraft in Jharkhand
Jharcraft, a state government initiative, has helped transform the lives of 2.5 lakh families with support for reviving, enhancing, and marketing their traditional crafts. Local craft-based institutions have also been strengthened.
Very Much on the Map: The Timbaktu Revolution
The Timbaktu Collective in Andhra Pradesh is transforming the lives of villagers through sustainable dryland farming, conservation of the commons, and empowerment of women.