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Kulapati Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi founded the Bhavan on Monday, November 7, 1938. It was the beginning of an 'Adventure in Faith'. A faith in India's Past, Present and Future. The founding of Bhavan was based on the preservation and propagation of Bharatiya Sanskriti (Indian culture) and Sanskrit, the mother of languages, the Akshaya patra: the inexhaustible reservoir. This unpretentious endeavour was backed by Kulapati Munshi's amazing pragmatism.
Over the years from being a modest Indological research institution, the Bhavan has steadily grown into a comprehensive, co-operative, apolitical, national movement with an international outlook. It seeks to inculcate a value-based life. The promotion of ethical and spiritual values in everything that it does.
To Bhavan, Indian Culture is composite and comprehensive and includes the cultures of all religions and communities. It believes in the fusion and synthesis of the basic ideals and tenets of all faiths ... and an equal respect for all religions.
""Harmony of all faiths.
Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava."
❝My faith in India is well placed...Bhavan's Gandhi Institute's Project of making even poor and disadvantaged computer savvy was a model to the world and this Privilege of being involved in it spurs me on.
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-Mr. Bill Gates
- Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A.
❝I am very happy indeed that the Bhavan has not been nourished on the milk of some strange breed of cow, she-buffalo, goat or foreign mother. The Bhavan has been nourished on the milk of Mother India ................
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-Shri Giani Zail Singh
- Former President of India and Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is endeavouring to spread the knowledge of Indian Culture and to inspire more persons to practise the disciplines enjoined by that culture. I would like all those who honour the Atma Vidya of Indian sages to give the Bhavan their fullest co-operation and. . . .
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-Swami Satya Sai Baba
- Renowned Hindu Saint
❝The word' Dharma' has no equivalent in English. It is an entirely Indian concept comprising innumerable virtues like charity, justice, fairness, honesty, one's duty, righteous conduct, straightforward behaviour and others. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, has been during the last sixty years, propagating. . . .
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-Shri R. Venkataraman
- Former President of India and Former President of Bhavan
❝I pay my humble obeisance to the illuminating consciousness of Munshi Bapa (Kulapati Munshiji), the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. The Bhavan has been spreading Vidya (knowledge) and Indian Culture... I have been witness to its multi-dimensional activities.
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-Sant Shri Morari Bapu
- Renowned Exponent of Ram Katha
❝The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has ceaselessly been striving to spread the message of Indian Culture - the message of the oneness of human kind, of peace, creativity and mutually supportive action. The Bhavan serves as a bridge connecting diverse cultures, historical experiences and perspectives of the. . . .
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-Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma
- Former President of India
❝Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is spreading the ever-lasting beauty of integration of multi-cultures and multi-philosophies with tolerance.
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-Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Former President of India
❝Of the many institutions that were born in the ferment of India's struggle for Independence, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan occupies a unique place for its vision, activities and its continuing contribution to the realisation of the fundamental good of the Freedom Movement.
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-Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister of India
❝The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is one of our most cherished national institutions. I bow my head and pay tributes to the memory of Dr. K.M. Munshi. He was a towering visionary...
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-Dr. Manmohan Singh
- Former Prime Minster of India
❝Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has fulfilled a very important role in the cultural vitalization of the country. The need of the day is for our youngsters to appreciate all the good things that India has. Our culture, our language, our dance, our music, our compassion, our family values.. . . .
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-Shri N.R.Narayan Murthy
- Founder Chairman of Infosys
❝Vast changes have taken place during these years and the Bhavan is one of the few organizations which have sponsored and welcomed the changes. May history record the same progressive attitude during the next fifty years.
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-Lord Fenner Brockway
- Former Member of British Parliament and Bhavan's Honorary Member
"India will once again be acknowledged as the vishwa guru - a superpower that embodies the ideals of vasudhaiva kutumbakam - the global family."
