alternative development
This is not the future we want

Any decent ecological assessment of a project needs a year of study (over all seasons), so the 180 days limit means short-cuts.

Ecologies of Hope and Transformation: Post-Development Alternatives from India (2018)

The stories in the book challenge inequality, ecological damage, centralised governance, and the currently dominant model of development.

पर्यायी जीवन (in Marathi)

शिक्षण सम्यक् दृष्टीवर आधारलेले हवे; व्यवसाय, नोकऱ्या, संशोधन हे मुख्यतः जैवविविधतेचे, निसर्गाचे संरक्षण, संवर्धन यांतून प्राप्त झाल्या पाहिजेत...

A Journey of Re-imagining Education: Interview with Manish Jain

Alternative education means learning from Life, not from textbooks, exams and classrooms.

Environmental & Economic Sustainability, Social Harmony and Social Transmutation : an example towards Self-rule/Swaraj

On an average, around one hundred people worked daily for around one and a half years to dig the canal through the mountain.

From Close Quarters: Protecting an Adivasi Culture the State Wants to Destroy

The unrest in and around Bastar is fundamentally about respect, dignity and trust in our behaviour towards other people

Women artisans of Thar Desert overcome adversity through embroidery

Undeterred by displacement and resettled in the unforgiving Thar Desert, women now have used their skills of traditional embroidery to earn a livelihood

Kutch’s Water Champions In The Making

Local youth, with some amount of training and support, can implement solutions for the community if they understand and manage local water problems.

Dear Humans, how long will you live?

All the pressing concerns about pollution, waste, rising temperatures, and so on boil down to the need for a transformation of our value systems.