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Pandemic Resilience in Urban India
Examples, lessons, and specific recommendations for communities, civil society organisations, and government agencies.
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The Guardians of Life
Testimonies of communities resisting and reconstructing, the beauty in struggle, resilience and strength found in being fully alive in troubled times.
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Perumbakkam way- Community efforts towards climate resilience
Helping community members bounce back from difficulties and improve their capacity to face risks, environmental or otherwise.
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In Ahmednagar, residents of a slum design their own homes
"... Just asking the communities that they are building for, how is it that they imagine their home to look?”
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Defenders Of The Forest: How Forest Dwelling-Communities Of Gondia Are Regenerating Forests
"We know for a fact that if our forests are saved, our future generation is safe."
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Goonj Initiative Helps Bihar Villagers Build Bamboo Bridge Amid Floods
With 250 pieces of bamboo sticks, the determined locals toiled for five days to build a 400-metre-long and 1.5-metre-wide bridge.
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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 ...
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India needs a rainbow recovery plan
... sustainable livelihoods, to be built on regenerating and safeguarding the soil, natural ecosystems, water, biological diversity, and air.
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खेती सुधार अधिनियम २०२० (in Hindi)
किसानों को कैसे बचाया जा सकता है? कृषि उत्पादों के लिए एमआरपी जैसी कम से कम कीमतें जारी करने के जरिये?