BHAVAN's
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan was founded in 1938 in Mumbai, with a small beginning,has grown into an all - India intellectual, cultural and educational movement. True to its goal of revitalizing Dharma or the Moral law in its three fold form of Truth, Love and Beauty,the Bhavan is ceaselessly striving to carry forward India's ageless message - Faith, Self-discipline and Dedication.
The Bhavan recognizes no antagonism between science and spirituality. It believes that they are complimentary and mutually invigorating and as such while promoting modern scientific progress, the Bhavan seeks to strike a synthesis between material and spiritual values.
Dr.K.M.Munshi, its founder, was a practical idealist. He was a multifaceted personality: Lawyer, Author, Constitution - Maker, Statesman, Social reformer, he was above all one who incessantly strove for cultural and spiritual regeneration.
Bhavan's Motto
We believe in "Progressive Practices Preserving values", a conscious effort is made to integrate values with curricular instruction.
The Bhavan has come to be recognized as a symbol of the intellectual, literary, educational, ethical, spiritual and cultural life of India flowing through the centuries, and as a comprehensive national institution with international outlook, touching almost all segments of life. During the decades of its life, in a world falling to pieces under the impact of an amoral technological avalanche, the Bhavan has been steadfastly endeavoring to hold fast to the fundamental values oflife and has perseveringly contributed its might to foster these values, re-integrating them with new elements suited to modern conditions.
Around the country
This is being accomplished through its 400 constituent institutions and departments. Through its centers spread all over India and abroad numbering 127, through its publications exceeding 2100 titles (with sales crossing 29 millions) including its eleven volume series of the History and Culture of the Indian people which has acquired world recognition, through its public libraries, through its journals in different languages, through its Sanskrit and Gita examinations for which over 1,60,000 students appear every year from 1000 centers through management, staff, Student-teacher dialogues, through cultural and educational tours and through AR- India colloquia seminars and symposia on subject of ethical and spiritual importance and through its monumental projects for correlating ancient insights to modern discoveries.
Years of Growth
Over six decades of its life, the Bhavan has been steadfastly endeavouring to hold fast to the fundamental values of life and has been fostering these values, reintegrating them with new elements suited to modern conditions.
This is being accomplished through its 367 Constituent Institutions, 119 Kendras in India and 6 Overseas Centres, through its publications exceeding 1500 titles (with sales crossing 30 millions) including its monumental eleven volume history series, The History and Culture of the Indian People which have acquired world recognition, through its public libraries, through its journals in different languages, through the Sanskrit and Gita Examinations for which over 40,000 students appear every year from 550 centres, through management-staff, student-teacher dialogue, through cultural and educational tours and through All-India Colloquia, Seminars, Symposia, Lectures and Discourses on subjects of ethical and spiritual importance and through its monumental project for correlating ancient insights to modern discoveries in the fields of science, technology, life and health sciences and human values.
Through its project Dharma Seva Pratishthan, the Bhavan has taken up repairs and renovation of old places of worship and the task of spreading the fundamental teachings of all religions and faiths. The Bhavan's Cassette Project, Amar Vani Mala, brings out the hymns and prayers of all religions in cassette forms. Culture Course Readers, specially designed for children with illustrations inculcate in young minds the spirit of unity and national integration.
Through its various schools and colleges from Kindergarten to Post Graduate and Research spread all over India, the Bhavan imparts education in subjects ranging from Sanskrit, Indology, Indian Culture, Indian Classical Music, Dance, Drama, Yoga, Classical Languages and Ancient Scriptures to Arts, Science, Commerce, Engineering, Modern Management and Mass Communication and Information Technology and foreign languages like French, Spanish, Russian, German and Japanese. And through promotion of National Integration and Communal Harmony, Purity in Public Life and Rural Regeneration.
Thus, Bhavan's programmes cover "all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave and beyond...it fills a growing vacuum in modern life" as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru observed when he first visited the Bhavan in 1950.