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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">The <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Vikalp Sangam </b></span><span
lang="EN-US"><a href="https://vikalpsangam.org/map/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times
New Roman"">Map</span></b></a></span><span
style="font-family: "Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US"> documents and catalogues stories of
alternative initiatives across India. It provides readers,
researchers, students and practitioners with a user-friendly
tool to navigate through stories, case studies, films and
perspectives on numerous ongoing alternative initiatives in
India. These initiatives range across food, environment,
health, politics, culture, education, governance and many more
subjects. </span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">As the scale of many of these
initiatives is small, many of them go unnoticed in the eyes of
concerned citizens and researchers. The Map collects stories
of alternatives in order to increase visibility with the aim
of interlinking them and initiating conversations of
sharing experiences and learning. It therefore, is a
virtual medium to get information, connect with other groups
working on similar issues and build confluences. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">A Vikalp Sangam team manages the
Map, to find out more please click </span><span lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://vikalpsangam.org/map/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">here</span></a></span><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">.</span><b> <span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">Vikalp Sangam</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US"> is a platform for networking of
groups and individuals working on alternatives to the
currently dominant model of development and governance, in
various spheres of life. Its major activity is the convening
of regional and thematic Confluences across India, and
documentation and dissemination of alternative initiatives.</span></p>
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text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"
lang="EN-US">What is an Alternative?</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">Alternatives can be practical
activities, policies, processes, technologies, and
concepts/frameworks, that lead us to equity, justice, and
sustainability. They can be practiced or proposed/propagated
by communities, government, civil society organizations,
individuals, and social enterprises, amongst others. They can
simply be continuations from the past, re-asserted in or
modified for current times, or new ones; it is important to
note that the term does not imply these are always ‘marginal’
or new, but that they are in contrast to the mainstream or
dominant system. Not all will be 'radical' in all respects,
and many may be in transition or be in the nature of reforms
but helping to reduce injustic, inequality, unsustainability.
For how the Vikalp Sangam process looks at this, <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://vikalpsangam.org/about/the-search-for-alternatives-key-aspects-and-principles/"
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"">Read More…</span></b></a></span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">and for a tool of self-assessment on
how radical and holistic a transformation is: <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/migrate/VS_Case_Studies/alternatives_transformation_framework,_final_ver_for_public,_revised_20.2.2017.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span
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New Roman"">Alternative Transformation Format</span></b></a></span><span
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Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman"" lang="EN-US">What type of information can you
find in the Map?</span> </b><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"
lang="EN-US">The VS maps stories, case studies, perspectives
and videos/films across 11 main categories: </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""
lang="EN-US"> Economics And Technologies</span></li>
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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