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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."
❝The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan was started at a time when Indians were gradually getting westernised and our thinking and approach were moving to that direction. India must not lose its soul. The Bhavan is spreading Indian Culture, philosophy and spirituality in India and abroad and. . . .
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-Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Former Prime Minister of India
❝As Patron-in-Chief of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, U.K. Centre, I was glad to be present when the British Prime Minister officially opened the new building of our Institute of Indian Culture in London on 19th July 1978. It was a most thrilling and memorable occasion and there is no doubt that the. . . .
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-Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma
- Last British Viceroy and First Governor General of Independent India
❝The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is a unique institution. I am fully aware of the excellent services the Bhavan has rendered to the people of India and to the world within a short period. Any amount of praise will be inadequate for it. I pray that the Bhavan should keep. . . .
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-Loknayak Shri Jayaprakash Narayan
- Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝Generations to come will be grateful to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan for the yeoman services it has rendered forthe preservation and propagation of Indian Culture during the last 30 years. Its contribution is fostering ethical and spiritual values as the basis of national integration. . . .
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-Dr. V. V. Giri
- Former President of India and Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝Through its activities, publications and the educational institutions it runs, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has been doing impressive work to enable our people to understand their heritage. My good wishes.
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-Smt. Indira Gandhi
- Former Prime Minister of India
❝Years ago we were delighted and greatly honoured when you decided to establish here in London the first cultural centre outside India. Today you are taking a splendid further initiative... I would echo the phrase you have used The Majesty of the Moral Law.
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-Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
- Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom
❝Over the last fifty years, the Indian Cultural scene has changed remarkably. The difference that was engendered by colonialism has yielded place to self-confidence. Access to knowledge and culture has also widened impressively. The challenge before us today is to ensure that preoccupation. . . .
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-Shri Rajiv Gandhi
- Former Prime Minister of India
❝I assure all of you in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan of my prayers and those of poor for the success of the work you are undertaking to spread culture and religious consciousness. People everywhere are hungry for God. If we pray - we will believe, if we believe, we will love. If we love,. . . .
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-Reverend Mother Theresa
- Beatified Saint and Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝Ever since its inception, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has been rendering excellent service for the propagation and enrichment of our cultural heritage. The Bhavan stands for synthesis of science and spirituality and is propagating the true ideals of material and spiritual progress. I. . . .
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-Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
- Former President of India and Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝The Bhavan had set its lamp of auspiciousness. It has not left any avenue of programme unexploited to the maximum in serving our culture. The impossible has been made possible; the incredible has been made credible ...... I will only pray for greater services by the Bhavan in the. . . .
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-Swami Chinmayananda
- President, Sandeepany Sadhanalaya and Bhavan's Hon. Member
❝Munshiji had conceived this institution for enabling us to recapture and foster our fundamental values reintegrating them with new elements suited to modern conditions. The record of Bhavan's achievement spreading over the last 42 years speaks volumes about fulfilment of this objective. It has grown. . . .
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-Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
- Former President of India and Bhavan's Hon. Member
"India will once again be acknowledged as the vishwa guru - a superpower that embodies the ideals of vasudhaiva kutumbakam - the global family."
