How about a system that sources real-time information on weather from GPS-equipped fishermen at sea, processes this vital data through scientists and researchers, and disseminates it quickly to the fishing community via mobile phones, radio and the internet?

Organic food is poised to take deeper root in urban India. A great diversity of organic initiatives exists in the…

The book Wrong Theory by Girish Abhyankar is an attempt at a unified theory addressing questions on appropriateness and cost of technology and related issues, the emerging philosophical aspects concerning human life and, finally, a case-study.

Vijay Jardhari of the Beej Bachao Andolan has been conserving and growing a huge variety of traditional crops, crucial for the future of agriculture and food security.

The festival of colours – Holi – is round the corner, and we need safe, plant-based colours. Such colours are being offered by Maitri, Sirsi, and by Ecoexist, Pune

The program of Learning Un Learning will be at Adliabad from March 24th till 28th at Guruji s Kalashram. Learning un learning in short is a program to initiate deep enquiry in to the biological roots of cognition and to explore the cognitive damages inflicted by modern coercive education.

Pune has experimented with a form of Participatory Budgeting since 2006, when it was first introduced formally by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Citizens’ organizations have played an important role in initiating and shaping it.

This seminar is an attempt at bringing together policymakers, researchers and practitioners not only to reframe questions but also to think of novel solutions for sustainability in the areas of agriculture, human habitats and customary law in contrast to the modern legal framework.

In 1965 a young post graduate student, SANJIT “BUNKER” ROY volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Palamu District Bihar, now Jharkhand, one of the poorest of India’s states. His urban elitist upbringing had distanced him from poverty and destitution. This experience changed him, and formed the determination to fight poverty and inequality. It became his mission. The idea of the SWRC (Social Works and Research Centre), Tilonia emerged from these concerns.