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In Kutch, Women Are Weaving a New Future for Themselves
New energy and perspective seen in designs and products, are transforming the already flourishing Vanaat.
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Maha gramsabha: A Unique Initiative In Central India
Apart from resistance against mining and implementation of forest rights, what other activities are taking place at the MGS level?
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TEDx Talk on Vikalp Sangam
An environmentalist inspires us to think and plan for the future, to focus on the positives, on the solutions, for a better life. He inspires us to dream.
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Women come out of the woods: collectivisation in rural Maharashtra
Gadchiroli’s women first came together to protest mining in their forests. Now, they’re calling the shots
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Carnatic music and a folk theatre form come together to push the stubborn lines of caste and gender
Artistic traditions are being fostered without the incumbent caste and gender biases.
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Tribals urge parties to ensure food security
"Tribals have an enormous storehouse of knowledge on food gathering, shifting hill cultivation, pastoralism, labour and handicrafts,”
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Diversified Farming
... to practise organic farming to rejuvenate the land and to work on gender issues in agriculture.
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How to move a mountain
"We must be ready with ... our resolve to move mountains (of a hierarchical and unequal social order that has risen again)"
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E-rickshaws in Jaipur: Freedom on three wheels
Housewives and young girls from slums in Jaipur are finding their freedom on three wheels