healing practices
A case for conscience and humanity

Wars highlight nationality and ethnicity at the cost of humanity. This piece looks at Ela BhattтАЩs household model to move towards a society that cares.

Paramparika Vaidyas of Rural Bengaluru

The series explores VaidyasтАЩ diverse notions of health and well-being which are often non-anthropocentric and situated in multidimensional physical, social, and spiritual eco-spaces

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How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine

Local women expressed the need for documenting the knowledge of ethnomedical practices and feared that all this knowledge would disappear with their generation.

Who is Dr Rajendra Bharud, the Nandurbar collector who foresaw the need of oxygen plants

When there was a steady decline in cases, he set up their first liquid oxygen plant at the district hospital

GandhiтАЩs relevance in the time of global crises

For Gandhi, swaraj had to be built тАШbottom-upтАЩ, from the village outwards across the landscape ...

How to Save Forest Culture? тАШSilentтАЩ Battle by OdishaтАЩs Kondhs is The Right Lesson

The men, women and children from every family worked on a war footing to replant, restore and replenish the beauty of their aboriginal mother тАУ the jungle.

The story of a doctor who reunites lost, mentally-ill patients with their families

As soon as he entered the house, a commotion broke out. His elderly parents began crying with joy. Why?

Farming for Healing

What does it take to create and maintain an organic medicinal farm, in the face of rampant development?