Three Wheels United is helping auto drivers in Bengaluru by providing them access to finance and fuel-efficient vehicles

Perpetual growth is a piece of nonsense. The focus should be on protecting livelihoods through sustainable means.

Tara books has always been a worker-owned cooperative of artists, writers, and designers. Young bookmaking artisans are trained here, and nurtured to develop a livelihood that not only supports their families but also preserves their tradition and culture.

Transparent Chennai aims to empower the citizens of Chennai, particularly the urban poor, by creating and providing relevant city data that highlights citizen needs and helps the city government make better city planning decisions.

A group of local village women attended the Barefoot College Parabolic Solar Cooker workshop, and then started a cooperative to cut, weld, build and use more of these themselves.

By placing all components of textile production in the hands of weavers and artisans, the Malkha intervention seeks to make them autonomous owners of their means of livelihood.

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.

How beneficiary-led monitoring of government-run services, such as ration shops and rural healthcare, functions in a few states.