From waste management to water conservation, garbage issues to road safety, Whitefield Rising brings the community together to combat these issues on their own.

Over the last decade Khonoma, a village near Kohima in northeastern India, inhabited by the Angami, one of the indigenous or tribal people of the state of Nagaland, has demonstrated a resolute will to conserve biodiversity and wildlife.

India boasts of a huge variety of languages and dialects. Many of these languages do not have scripts of their own. In fact many of them are on the brink of fading away into oblivion owing to the trend of people migrating to modern cities and hence newer cultures. However, a small academy in Gujarat is standing tall to save these languages from dying. Anand Giridharadas writes in this article on how the Adivasi Academy, based in Tejgadh, Gujarat, is working towards chronicling elements of rural culture.

Samrakshan’s Meghalaya field-base had undertaken community-based conservation programmes in the landscape for the last few years but our latest attempt was a community-based ecotourism programme with multiple goals. -

Swasthya Swara (Health Swara) plans to address rural community health issues through the use of mobile phones, and at the same time help in protection and distribution of ancient knowledge that the Vaids and other traditional practitioners possess, which is in danger of vanishing forever