Vignettes, diaries, videos, conversations: every entry in this section brings you up-close with us and our work

Our three operating units — Field Institutions, Grants and Universities — function in an integrated manner to fuel the Foundation’s motto of contributing towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. We bring you a collection of narratives from all three units, straight from our people and partners across India. These stories, in the form of videos, animation, interviews and journals, showcase the journey and the Foundation in its various fields of work.

Play Video Hoysala Aerobics: Move Like a Madanika

Hoysala Aerobics: Move Like a Madanika

Imagine a carved figure from the walls of a Hoysala temple and the energetic moves of an aerobics trainer. Put the two together and you have a creative project from the current students of the University in Bengaluru

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Play Video Gram Sabha ki Kahani

Gram Sabha ki Kahani

An inspiring collection of narratives from rural Jharkhand. This series underscores the importance of strong local democratic institutions such as the panchayat.

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Rivers of Life | नदी | Episode 1

Rivers of Life | नदी | Episode 1

Rivers are and have always been an important entity in our beings. Some of those values are becoming invisible these days. Here through this podcast, we make an attempt to do some conversations with rivers.

Rivers of Life | जल की नदियां | Episode 2

Rivers of Life | जल की नदियां | Episode 2

In Distant Time, civilisations started and decimated around rivers. In a way, lives of all the animate being start and end at rivers. One could say that there is no start or end. This poem is an attempt to show how everything in our beings are connected to rivers …

Rivers of Life | बहाव| Episode 3

Rivers of Life | बहाव| Episode 3

Like every single droplet of water flowing in the river, essentially, everything flows. This poem will have a conversation with you about cyclic and predeatined nature of flow in our lives.

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