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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: How to Reunite India
The notion of an ‘Alliance of Civilisations’ is the guiding principle of many groups in various cities who wish to revive India’s syncretic traditions
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Goonj Initiative Helps Bihar Villagers Build Bamboo Bridge Amid Floods
With 250 pieces of bamboo sticks, the determined locals toiled for five days to build a 400-metre-long and 1.5-metre-wide bridge.
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Springs that sustain millions
Women of Himachal's villages - no longer trudging miles to fetch safe drinking water
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Nagaland Students Setup Mini Hydropower Plant, Power Highway Street Lights
“Project Brighter Khuzama is wholly funded by like-minded locals and not by any governmental organisations."
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People of the Blue Mountains
"It's their mainstream, what we call alternatives"
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Re-imagining food: Do we have the stomach for it?
Hunger ... is not due to lack of food, but lack of justice
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हाथीपावा : श्रमदान से बदली सूरत (in Hindi)
सहयोग की परंपरा हलमा कार्यक्रम में 5 हजार से ज्यादा ग्रामीणों ने अपने खर्च पर झाबुआ पहुंचकर पांच घंटे तक श्रमदान किया।
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Reviving tradition with new mandate: Shivji ka HALMA
Shivji ka Halma! To quench the thirst of Mother Earth, an ancient tradition of the Bhil tribe, re- cast.
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Reviving the Trinjan
An effort to empower rural women and reimagine their agency through revival of art and craft of weaving in Punjab