swaraj
देसी बीजों की खेती ने भूख से बचाया (in Hindi)

तालाबंदी के कारण जब बाजार बंद थे, रोजगार और पैसों का अभाव था, तब उनको पौष्टिक अनाज व सब्जी बाड़ी से सब्जियां की कमी नहीं हुई।

Mahatma Gandhi calls PM Modi: “Did you really mean Self-reliance?”

‘Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused’.

Extraordinary work of ‘ordinary’ people: Beyond pandemics and lockdowns

Re. capacity building to govern and manage food, health, water, energy, shelter, education, and other basic needs and aspirations, to be selfreliant

160 women from a tiny village called Rahu in Melghat get Rs 10000 as share of profit through bamboo harvest

The Gram Sabha values the forests and knows the outcomes of protecting and nurturing it

A quick survey of wheat diversity in India

Eating diversity and paying the farmer is a way all of us can contribute to agro-biodiversity conservation.

The draft seeds bill favours the industry over farmers

The current seeds bill bears the imprint of the seed industry which never masks its displeasure at the enabling provisions granted to farmers

Collective Dreaming: Democratic Visioning in the Vikalp Sangam Process

What is our vision of a better future? What are our answers to questions of poverty, hunger, energy insecurity, and other deprivations?

A Room with Many Views

The idea that we can deploy uniquely Indian alternative responses to global issues is a fascinating one. It created the non-aligned movement.

Gandhi, Tagore, Modernity

Both were the earliest harbingers of the planetary ecological crisis, the latter warning of its imminence in multiple literary genres