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Moda Samskritam
Bharat's first Samskrita musical animation series — the life's work of Dr. Varsha Sarda, led by Samskrita Bharati Canada, and free for every child in the world.
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Make every child Bharatiya
Not as a subject to be examined, but as a way of seeing. Folksutra carries the culture of this land — its stories, its arts, its languages, its habits of thought — into the everyday life of children.
Our mission
A civilisation is only ever one generation from being forgotten
Every culture survives the same way — someone tells a child a story, and the child tells it again. That chain has thinned. Children in India today can name a dozen superheroes and not one figure from the Panchatantra; they can spot a brand logo at fifty paces and not read the painting on their own grandmother's wall.
Folksutra exists to repair that link. We build curriculum, train teachers, and put working folk artists in front of children — so that Bharatiya culture reaches them not as heritage under glass, but as something living, theirs, and worth carrying forward.
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- flagship project in production
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- animated episodes in the making
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- programmes in design
Four strands
How we work
Four strands, taught together. Each one is a way into the same thing — a child who is at home in their own culture.
Story
कथाThe Panchatantra, the Jataka tales, the epics, and the local legends that never got written down. Told aloud, acted out, argued over — the way they were always meant to travel.
Art
कलाMadhubani, Warli, Gond, Pattachitra, Kalamkari. Children learn to make them, and in making them learn what the forms mean, who keeps them, and why they nearly disappeared.
Language
भाषाSanskrit as a doorway, and the mother tongue as a home. We teach children to read the script on the temple wall and the songs their grandparents sing.
Practice
आचारFestivals, seasons, food, greeting, service. The daily grammar of a culture — learned by doing it together, not by reading about it.
“A child who knows where they come from walks differently in the world.”
Projects
What we are running right now
Four programmes, each one a different way into the same work.
From the journal
What we are learning
Field notes, arguments, and the occasional write-up of something that did not work.
Culture
Why a child should know the art of their own district
A ten-year-old in Madhubani thought Mithila painting was Japanese. That answer is not her fault, and it tells us exactly what schooling taught her to value.
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Field notes
What we got wrong in the first year
We promised to publish the failures alongside the wins. Here are four things that did not work, and what we changed.
Read the postThis work runs on people who decide it matters
Every classroom we reach is funded by someone who thought a child ought to grow up knowing this. Curriculum, teacher training, an artist's fee for a week in a village school — it all adds up from ordinary gifts. Folksutra Trust is a registered charitable trust under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882, and every donation is eligible for tax exemption under Section 80G.