Sudha Sreenivasa Reddy is Director of the Eco Foundation for Sustainable Alternatives, consultant with the Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India and a former Advisor to FOGGS. Her work spans peacebuilding, climate justice, gender justice, food and nutrition security, and the inclusion of vulnerable persons with disabilities, religious minorities, and sexual minorities, across practice, advocacy, policy, research, and community engagement. Drawing on Gandhian ethics, feminist peace theory, and Global South perspectives, her writing engages conscience, justice, and lived realities. She is a recipient of the Maya Koene International Peace Award (2025).
Introduction: The Crisis of Conscience in Our Time Within the international system, violence is no longer treated as an unwelcome departure from what is normal. Rather, it is increasingly being used as one of its organising principles. War is standardised as policy, civilian suffering is reframed as collateral damage and instead of being an ethical…
Two Days, One Question Every August 14th and 15th, two nations—Pakistan and India—mark their Independence Days. In theory, these are moments of celebration. Flags rise, anthems echo, and speeches recall the courage of those who fought for liberation. Yet beneath the pageantry lies a harder question: What do we mean by freedom, and have we…
“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025 When I read this line, something ruptured deep inside me. Fourteen thousand babies—not numbers, not statistics, but breathing, crying, nursing newborns—are being consigned to death in the very first hours of life. How does one carry that…
On the morning of 22 April 2025, something inside me broke. In a quiet valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—a place known for its beauty and serenity—five armed militants opened fire on non-Muslim male tourists. Twenty-six men, on pilgrimage and vacation, were brutally gunned down in front of their families—wives, children, parents—who could do nothing…
Overview Since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 the world has been moved and harrowed in ways no one ever imagined. We are experiencing lockdown impacts of a magnitude that will not only cause short-term impediments but long-term as well. The burden on the economy runs deeply through major issues like hunger, malnutrition…
1.3 bln people are economically, socially, politically or culturally poor. In too many cases, decades of development aid couldn’t stop the rising inequality.
