A brand new yarn: The return of handloom weaving in Kutch
Of renewed interest in weaving and about its allure in terms of economics, culture, identity, dignity, convenience, social ties, and innovation.
Sikkim’s Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve braids nature with culture as tourism expands
" Biocultural knowledge is the secret of how communities have responded and adapted to climate change and globalisation"
The Centre Cannot Hold: How GN Devy challenges our concept of knowledge
Devy is now at the frontline of the war over knowledge, language and politics.
The indigenous doctors and Healers of Chhattisgarh
Knowledge and a respect for ecology still enables the local traditional healers to ensure immense faith and following by Chhattisgarh folk.
Organic farming gathers steam in the Sundarbans
The training at the Knowledge Centre is now modified to weave in local knowledge to make it rooted in ground realities.
कहानियाँ क्यों ज़रूरी हैं? (in Hindi)
वर्तमान जीवन में लोक कहानियों का क्या महत्त्व है? कुछ विचार।
Bharatavani portal offers digital dictionaries of vanishing Indian languages
The portal offers 262 unilingual and multilingual dictionaries in 50 Indian languages — all of them in a searchable format
With nature for company
Merging traditional way of understanding weather with science and technology can augment adaptation to climate change too.
Why Storytelling Traditions Remain Relevant Today
Stories have always been important in human history, but we are losing systems that wove and passed on these stories, and even tongues that held them