Ahimsagram is inspired by principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Self Management, Holacracy and sustainable living practices! We work with Holacracy as a Governance method,

- for those who want to develop sustainable businesses as well as for those wanting to learn about self management.

- offering trainings in self management which will give tools to other organisations or entrepreneurs to set up their own businesses with more ease and effectiveness, while working collaboratively and creating engaging and inspired teams.

https://ahimsagram.in/our-story/

Ahimsagram was founded by Shammi Nanda,

Sociocracy as our governance system, as we wanted to create a world where each person has a voice.

Holacracy: our team works on self management principles where everyone in the team takes responsibility of their role (s) while enjoying autonomy and freedom (Brian Robertson)

NVC -  Marshall Rosenberg

Citing development needs, the government took over Delhi’s once thriving commons. Now, much of this land is neglected, walled off or encroached on by the rich. https://scroll.in/article/1043344/how-delhi-ate-up-its-village-commons 

A board in the middle of the dried pond announces that it is situated on “gaon sabha” land. This is a category of land that, under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, is jointly owned by a village, and comprises areas used by the community, including for the digging of wells, collecting forest produce or as burial grounds. The act vests the rights of usage of such common lands with the gaon sabha – the representative body that governs a village or a group of villages, whose executive arm is the gaon panchayat.

But blame for the pond’s mismanagement does not rest with the gaon sabha. In 1990, the Delhi government issued a notification that dissolved all the gaon panchayats constituted under the 1954 act, and transferred the ownership of the gaon sabha lands to the revenue department of the Delhi government.

With that, the divisional commissioner of Delhi, an officer of the revenue department, took over the duties and powers of the gaon panchayats

by Vaishnavi Rathore

08/02/2023

The ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir has sparked a heated debate and has become a major source of contention.

https://thewire.in/rights/watch-jammu-kashmir-anti-encroachment-drive-homeless 

by Faizan Mir

08/02/2023

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Journalist who exposed Barsu Refinery project mowed down Free Speech Collective. FEBRUARY 7, 2023 https://freespeechcollective.in/2023/02/07/journalist-who-exposed-barsu-refinery-project-mowed-down/
In a shocking incident, journalist Shashikant Warishe was mowed down and crushed by a vehicle allegedly driven by Pandharinath Amberkar, a local land-dealer and accused in several land grab cases in the controversial Barsu refinery in the western Konkan region of Maharashtra, barely a few hours after he published a report in Marathi newspaper Mahanagari Times about his links with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Decoding the Budget Through a Feminist Lens By Rohitha Naraharisetty talks to Vibhuti Patel Feb 2, 2023 https://theswaddle.com/decoding-the-budget-through-a-feminist-lens/

gender gap in five important areas. One, adverse sex ratio. Second is education . Third is employment —  Fourth is decision making — Fifth is gender-based violence. supply-side economics and growth doesn’t translate to welfare or empowerment.

Women and children should be separated because right now, the majority of the budget goes to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), which also addresses women and children. And the second part of this allocation goes to reproductive and Child Health (RCH).

support to self-help groups (SHGs), there’s big applause about the budget allocating massive resources to SHGs. Yes, they did play a heroic role during the pandemic, but who will mediate them? If you are just parking money in private microfinance, they will exploit these women. We have had cases of women borrowers dying by suicide because of the bouncers who would humiliate and degrade them. These are some of the very serious concerns that we have.

Also, look at the budget on gender-based violence: with the Nirbhaya fund that has been allocated since 2013 — 1,000 — crores per year, you hardly see any utilization. There are states and union territories where there is 100% non-utilization of the fund. Though there is a clause that money cannot be diverted, most of the time, what is allocated for gender gets diverted. In Maharashtra, they recently bought SUVs and vehicles for MLAs using the Nirbhaya fund.

The EBHLE Community project has been in the works for sometime now. We started acquiring land in January 2020. But COVID came in March 2020 and put a delay. Now finally, the project will take off this year. EBHLE Community project is about creating an Eco-sustainable space, in a rural setting, of like minded people with its 3 pillars of Learning, Livelihood and Governance. It can accommodate 80 families and 300 Learners in the age group of 4 to 16. By 16 years of age we expect the kids to be self-sufficient in learning with creative problem solving skills and thereafter be able to pursue further learning of their interest (not our interest) on their own. For families it's going to be an experience of living a self-sustainable lifestyle in Nature, with Nature for the betterment of humanity and our progeny. This might sound audacious and a fantasy.
The project has a 100 year vision.

Usually the Community Meets were only open to people who have lived at Sapna Ranch for the minimum of a week, have realized that going forward, this is how they want to live and made a commitment to be a part of the project.

However with the post COVID Era people's priorities have changed and more want to move out of the urban setting and pursue their interests in a healthy, nature friendly, rural setting with work from home capabilities. Sapna Ranch has 100 Mbps fiber connectivity for internet.

Hasmukh by WhatsApp at ×91 9552689001 or by Telegram at +91 7558228952 or email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

At the recent police conference attended by PM Modi, Gadchiroli DIGP Sandip B. Patil claimed in a paper that 15 cultural and rights organisations are actually “active frontal organisations of Naxals." Behind this claim is little evidence. https://thewire.in/rights/maharashtra-top-cop-accuses-decades-old-cultural-rights-orgs-of-working-as-naxal-fronts 

In 2017, the artiste couple Shital Sathe and Sachin Mali publicly announced their decision to split from the cultural outfit, Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) after 15 years of association.

The artistes had claimed that they no longer wanted to be associated with an organisation that had “left-leaning politics”. Subsequently, the two started their own cultural group – Navayana Mahajalsa – aligning themselves with the visions of Ambedkar, Phule, and Shahu Maharaj. 

Five years later, despite their work and critical take on the Left movement, the Maharashtra state has classified Navayana Mahajalsa to be an “active Naxal frontal organisation”.

Meanwhile, B.D. Sharma, a retired IAS officer, and one of the key architects of the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act or PESA had worked among the Adivasis of Bastar until his death in 2015. Bharat Jan Andolan, an organisation founded by Sharma, has often been lauded for bringing the Fifth Schedule back on the national agenda and highlighting it as a vital instrument for the very survival of tribal people. 

Despite the work that Sharma and his organisation have done over several decades in the central India region, the Gadchiroli police have now termed the Bharat Jan Andolan an “active Naxal frontal organisation”.

The 15 organisations, including Bharat Jan Aandolan and Navyana Mahajalsa, are:

1. Samata Kala Manch,
2. Vidrohi Sanskrutik Chalval,
3. Republican Panthers Jatiantachi Chalwal,
4. Indian Association of Peoples Lawyers (IAPL),
5. Deshbhakti Yuva Manch,
6. Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR),
7. Chhatra Bharati Vidyarthi Sanghatana,
8. Stri Chetna Manch,
9. Jatiy Atyachar Virodhi Kruti Samiti,
10. Dandkaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdour Sangh (DAKMS),
11. Dandkaranya Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh (DKAMS),
12. Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression, and
13. Committee for Relief of Political Prisoners.                                                 

       by Sukanya Shanta

       03/02/2023

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https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/extra-judicial-commissions-creating-false-narratives-around-2020-delhi-riots-central-government-to-delhi-high-court The affidavit dated September 19, 2022 was filed by the Centre in support of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of different reports prepared by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Citizens and Lawyers Initiative on the Delhi Riots of 2020.

In the plea,  one Dharmesh Sharma  has stated that his family used to run a school in Delhi's Mustafabad area, which was burned down during the riots. He said that the reports published by the DMC as well as other organisations are biased and impede the due process of law. In its response, the Centre has said that the DMC report is not only without jurisdiction, but also 'fake', and has been engineered by people with 'oblique and extraneous motives'. With regard to other reports, the government said that they abrogate fair trial and should be declared non-est so that they are not relied upon by any judicial forum, including courts.

Comment on Whatsapp: I suppose we will be discussing this today. We have to plea that in the age of whats app and Instagram, and fake news, one of the democratic duties of the people, is to learn "how to read" all such reports and understand them. It is unbecoming of "state" to say that since abc is influencing people, and somebody is "motivated" that either this motivation is illegitimate or that people who get follow these reports are "sheep". In fact it is the duty of State to ensure that in a regime of public news production, State should enable persons to get all points of view, and that all arms of the State should take cognizance of these reports, and when they are serious allegations which deal with Fundamental rights and Human Rights, the agencies concerned enquiry into each such allegation and present their findings before the executive and file FIRS before the courts, instead of declaring them "non-est"

All reports of inquiry should be seen (much like the rhetoric of advocate saying that they seek to "assist the Court:, ) that they are infact "assisting" the law enforcement machinery. This also relates to the please taken by govt on "public Order".. Does not public order mean just order? There must be several texts on this.

https://republicanjanta.com/special-congrats-to-the-government-for-discovering-the-padma-shri-such-diamonds/ 

Amayi Mahalinga Naik
Kepu A small village near Adyanadaka in Karnataka. A man was working in a betel nut and coconut plantation there. Own neither house nor land. But seeing his dedication and honesty, Mahabala Bhat, the owner of that garden, gave him 2 acres of land as a reward in 1978. The land was on top of a hill. Totally barren and barren. There is no trace of water. If there was someone like us, we would have left the sound of the land.
But the man dreamed of a betel nut garden on this land; And so begins a quest - of adventures that take on struggles, paths of questioning, journeys of answers and survival...

Then started building a hut for the family at the foot of the hill. The hill was leveled. A wall was built for it. When it comes to water. There was no money to dig a well. Then she decided to dig it herself and started working. Being at the base of the hill, they started digging a horizontal narrow tunnel as per the ancient method of water storage.

Why should everyone struggle so much to know the price of water?, I think sometimes. Not a single drop of water is wasted in Naik's farm. is recycled. Today, Naik's farm has more than 300 betel trees, 75 coconut trees, 150 cashew trees, 200 banana and chilli trees. Totally organic farming, and zero energy consumption.

Even though he is over seventy today, Naik does all the farm work and hard work himself. Yesterday he was awarded the Padma Shri in agriculture.