Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bangalore Kendra celebrates diamond jubilee in 2025

The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, popularly known arsenic Bhavans, was started successful 1938 by KM Munshi. Its scope arsenic a taste question soon dispersed successful the fields of literature, performing arts and acquisition arsenic good arsenic spiritual learning. The Bangalore Kendra of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan began successful 1965, and the section commenced their diamond jubilee celebrations with Santhavani.

Santhavani was inaugurated by movie manager TS Nagabharana and columnist Narahalli Balasubramanya, with devotional films successful antithetic languages and a publication exhibition. As portion of their diamond jubilee celebrations arsenic galore arsenic 60 programmes person been planned for the pursuing year.

The devotional movie festival, which concluded connected November 14, volition beryllium followed by Santhavani’s Segment Two with lectures, music, dance, drama, choirs and sheet discussions scheduled from November 15 to 21.

“Our laminitis Munshiji, whom we notation to arsenic Kulapati, chose the sanction Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan due to the fact that helium envisioned it arsenic an instauration without boundaries of geography, caste, religion, authorities oregon language,” says KG Raghavan, chairman, Bhavans, Bangalore Kendra. “That is wherefore it is called Bharatiya Vidya (Indian education). In keeping with this, helium chose a tagline from the Rig Veda, that translates to fto noble thoughts travel to america from each side.”

Munshi was a salient state fighter, lawyer, person and prolific writer. He was connected the committee which drafted the Indian Constitution, and served arsenic the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. “India required an instauration to foster value-based acquisition and civilization that would stock ‘vidya’ oregon cognition without barrier; Munshi’s passion sowed the seeds for Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,” Raghavan says.

Talking astir Bhavan’s e-book, The History and Culture of Indian People, Raghavan says, “Munshi was a visionary who undertook this mammoth project. Comprising 11-volumes, it took arsenic galore arsenic 100 reputed historians astir 32 years to constitute and compile it, labouring from 1944 to 1976. It contains astir 10,000 pages of the nation’s past makers and their accomplishments.”

Later, the Kannada mentation of the publication was undertaken by 60 translators nether an advisory committee headed by AV Narasimha Murthy.

Dispelling darkness

The ongoing 60^th special was curated by the Bhavans squad successful Bengaluru to integrate knowledge, contented and civilization successful an effort to bring airy to areas of ignorance. HN Suresh, director, Bhavans Bangalore Kendra, says, “Today, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has 365 centres successful India and 10 centres abroad. We people thousands of books speech from the ones by Munshi who wrote 150 titles successful English, Gujarati and Hindi, and publications successful determination languages.”

Suresh goes connected to say, value-based acquisition is imparted successful 165 Bhavans-affiliated schools crossed India. “Our relation with the Infosys Foundation sees regular taste programmes passim the nation.”

Bhavans has brought retired a peculiar booklet with messages of anticipation and appreciation by satellite leaders and taste icons who person been associated with the institution. Among them is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who has said,”Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan makes a peculiar effort to foster spiritual harmony with an accent connected sarva dharma samabhav oregon adjacent respect for each religions, which I too, wholeheartedly support.”

Jnanapeeth awardee writer UR Ananthamurthy has besides penned a fewer words successful the aforesaid booklet: “If I person an acquisition successful Indian culture, a ample portion of it is from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s books. At the level of publication reading, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan decolonised India and made america respect ourselves. There are large radical successful the satellite whom European colonisers not lone cowed into governmental submission, but besides made them hide their past. That could ne'er hap successful India, and we beryllium it to radical similar Munshi and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.”

Segment Two

Santhavani’s Segment Two includes devotional talks, discourses, presentations, euphony and creation recitals, and sheet discussions that screen a gamut of reformist movements and philosophies of each faiths prevalent successful India. Former Karnataka main curate Veerappa Moily, student Shatavadhani R Ganesh, erstwhile ambassador to UNESCO Chiranjiv Singh volition beryllium portion of the inaugural relation connected November 15.

Progressive betterment movements, socio-religious efforts, and devotional traditions specified arsenic the Natha Parampara and Saints from Orissa are immoderate of the topics that volition beryllium discussed. The socio-cultural power of the Haridasas will beryllium followed by a dance-drama connected vachanakars connected November 16. Other absorbing presentations see the philosophical doctrines of Vallabhacharya Sampradaya, the Tattvapada contented and a speech connected Guru Bani.

“The Evangelist religion choir volition execute astatine the evening league connected November 18. On November 20, Peter Machado, the Archbishop of Bangalore, volition talk successful the afternoon, followed by a ‘Message of Islam’ presented by Umar Teekay of Teekays Interior Solutions. This would beryllium followed by a Carnatic euphony performance by Nithyashree Mahadevan,” says Suresh.

He adds that the concluding time of the festival volition diagnostic talks connected Jainism and Buddhism and a philharmonic connected Ramanuja Vaibhavam. “The scope of Santhavani encompasses a wide scope of presentations, some secular and scholarly,” helium adds.

Santhavani volition instrumentality spot astatine Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bangalore Kendra till November 21. Entry free, but registration required on bhavankarnataka.com. Call 9845625899 for details