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May 23, 2025
SUPPORTED BY COMMON GROUND INITIATIVE
Creating a people’s biography of rivers: Northeast’s own digital archive
Faced with climate change, riverine communities are using memory maps, audio notes, and images to archive oral histories and traditional adaptation strategies.
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Vandana Menon
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8 min read
May 15, 2025
“If we don’t have failures, we haven’t done our job”
Darren Walker, president of Ford Foundation, talks about the new era of philanthropy in India, centring communities, and the value of failure.
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India Development Review
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2 min read
May 6, 2025
SUPPORTED BY REI
A framework to guide India’s renewable energy sector
Here's how stakeholders can assess their current practices, raise their ambition, and future-proof their projects in an evolving RE landscape.
by
Joeanna Rebello Fernandes
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10 min read
May 2, 2025
SUPPORTED BY COMMON GROUND INITIATIVE
IDR Explains | Commons
In just 10 minutes, learn how India’s commons power its people, ecology, and economy—through examples, their history, and challenges.
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India Development Review
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10 min read
April 25, 2025
Photo essay: Frontline teams bridge the gap between skilling and employment
Learn how frontline workers support gainful employment for India's youth through mobilisation, training, and job placement.
by
Ayesha Marfatia
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Nitya Daryanani
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Pragati Keswani
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4 min read
March 26, 2025
How former inmates found freedom in music
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Sunil Maida
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Shoaib Khan
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2 min read
January 30, 2025
SUPPORTED BY HUF
Photo essay: A blueprint for the rejuvenation of heritage tanks
In Bundelkhand, the Republic Day theme of ‘Swarim Bharat: Virasat aur Vikas’ is being demonstrated through the revival of centuries-old traditional water tanks.
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Rishu Garg
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Krushna Chandra Hembram
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3 min read
January 28, 2025
Forest guard by day, Bru culture documenter by night
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Rodingliana
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2 min read
January 16, 2025
Connection, not abstraction
Philanthropy’s most important role is not to abstract solutions by distilling them into replicable frameworks. It is to nurture the connections that make them possible.
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Gautam John
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7 min read
December 20, 2024
Can the Meiteis in Tripura save their beloved musical instrument?
by
Ningombam Bir Singha
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2 min read
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