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Environment and Ecology
Maharashtra goes Doha for water
How the inexpensive Doha model of groundwater recharge is saving the livelihoods of farmers in Maharashtra. Doha is a low-cost, eco-friendly water impounding structure built in a stream with no casting material used.
Society, Culture and Peace
Rikhiyaasan Rath: Capturing History and Identity
"Rikhiyaasan Rath" brings the ancestral past of the Rikhiyaasan (Musahar) community into the forefront. Created by girls of the community.
Environment and Ecology
A Space of Freedom
How an arts outreach initiative and an environmental justice campaign are together transforming public life in Chennai.
Food and Water
Nagaland’s docu-film bags first prize
“We want to show the people and the government about the importance of sustaining the cultivation of millets for maintaining agro-bio diversity,”
Food and Water
A fruitful journey
A food safari in the desert of Rajasthan reveals a variety difficult to imagine in cities
Economics and Technologies
Village women clean only freshwater lake in Odisha, revive tourism
Under the Cloth for Work initiative steered by Goonj, 30 women from Malabiharpur village took up the task of cleaning 2,000 sq ft area of the lake.
Livelihoods
Tribal women corner the market on India’s heat-hardy black goats
The goat-selling cooperative, created by a coalition of women's self-help groups serves 192 tribal villages.
Health and Hygiene
Shaheed Hospital
Chhattisgarh's Shaheed Hospital has been built and is being run by workers themselves. It provides them with many state-of-the-art facilities.
Videos on Alternatives
Videos for Vikalp Sangam, by Video Volunteers
Short videos by community members on alternative initiatives that attempt to integrate ecological sustainability, economic democracy, social justice, cultural diversity and democratic governance.