Projects

Four ways into the same work

Four programmes — story, art, teacher training, and language — running across eleven states.

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.

Madhubani-style painting of a storyteller mid-gesture facing four seated children, with the monkey and the crocodile from the Panchatantra drawn smaller between them as the tale being told.

PilotFirst classrooms, Varanasi

Kathasutra

The story programme — Panchatantra, Jataka and local legend, told aloud in the classroom.

A Madhubani artist's hands at work on a painted panel, pigment pots and bamboo brushes arranged nearby, rendered in dense folk line work.

UpcomingStarting in Bihar

Chitrashala

Folk artists teaching their own form in classrooms — Madhubani, Warli, Gond, Pattachitra, Kalamkari.

Folk-art illustration of a teacher and students seated beneath a tree, books and a lamp between them, drawn in Madhubani line work.

UpcomingIn design

Guru Parampara

Training teachers to carry the whole programme themselves — four modules, three days, a year of support.

A Madhubani-style painting of a child standing before a carved stone temple doorway, reaching up toward its ornament, framed by lotus vines and peacocks.

PilotVaranasi pilot

Bhasha Setu

Sanskrit as a doorway and the mother tongue as a home — reading the script on the wall and the songs at home.

Bring one of these to your school

The curriculum is free to any school that wants it, and training is subsidised.

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