A case for conscience and humanity
Wars highlight nationality and ethnicity at the cost of humanity. This piece looks at Ela Bhatt’s household model to move towards a society that cares.
Paramparika Vaidyas of Rural Bengaluru
The series explores Vaidyas’ diverse notions of health and well-being which are often non-anthropocentric and situated in multidimensional physical, social, and spiritual eco-spaces
झारखण्ड के एक आदिवासी गाँव द्वारा एथ्नोमेडिसिन ज्ञान को बचाए रखने का प्रयास (in Hindi)
स्थानीय महिलाओं ने एथ्नोमेडिसिन चिकित्सा के ज्ञान को आने वाली पीढ़ियों के लिए संग्रहित करने की इच्छा जताई।
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
Gandhi’s relevance in the time of global crises
For Gandhi, swaraj had to be built ‘bottom-up’, from the village outwards across the landscape ...
How to Save Forest Culture? ‘Silent’ Battle by Odisha’s 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 – 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?