About Bhasha

The main areas of interest for Bhasha have been language, arts, culture, education and social harmony.

Adivasis & Bhasha

Bhasha's special interest has been the adivasis, whose national population is about 104 million(Census 2011), and the nomadic and denotified communities, whose population is estimated at 60 million. Bhasha is engaged in bringing a greater appreciation of the cultures of these two social sectors and ensuring their entitlement to constitutional guarantees and social security. It needs to be stressed that this work is of huge proportion and involves not just the question of reducing the economic deprivation of the Adivasis and DNT's but also of social attitudes beset with stereotypes, Besides, the question of restoring their access to resources such as land, water and forest, and shaping the structural instruments such as policy and regulations, have been of high-priority in Bhasha's activities. Bhasha tries to pursue all these lines of action for a social transformation by activating the energy and imagination of the young and the educated among the Adivasis.
Adivasis & Bhasha

Objectives of Bhasha Trust

Our wide-ranging mission to preserve, promote, and champion India’s linguistic and cultural heritage

To undertake Study of Indian Languages, Literature, Culture and Arts and to undertake activity to promote the Arts, Literature, Languages and Culture in any part of the world.
To undertake ethnographic studies, cultural studies, comparative studies, sociological analysis, demographic reports of marginal, nomadic, indigenous and such like communities in any part of the world.
To organize seminars, workshops, discussions, conferences, exhibitions, displays, projections through digital media, e-archives and dissemination of publications of surveys, reports, dissertations, monographs, CDs, resulting out of such activities in the interest of public benefit, education, information and such like in all or any part of the world.
To undertake surveys, fieldwork, critical and historical studies of Indian Arts, Literature, Languages and Culture in their main-stream, popular and Folk-forms.
To stimulate and create awareness among the citizens for the preservation of tribal languages, art-practices and imaginative life of tribal communities in India.
To undertake pilot conservation projects.
To hold workshops, seminars, public lectures, exhibitions and festivals of art and literature related to tribal art and literature in India.
To obtain and render assistance and cooperation to local authorities, State and Central Governments, and other bodies, universities, institutions and individuals for achieving the objectives of the Trust.
To collaborate with national academics of art and literature and research institutions engaged in the area of tribals related imaginative activity for the purpose of undertaking or encouraging research in tribal art and literature.
To establish a campus for creating an institutions for the promotion of tribal languages, literature, arts and culture with a view to initiating formal education in the area of conservation of tribal imagination.
To consolidate the Adivasi Academy as an integral component of Bhasha and to generate intellectual, academic and funding support for continuation of the objectives with which the Adivasi Academy was established by Bhasha.
To assist, facilitate, collaborate with or to carry out for Government and non government organizations responsibilities to mitigate natural disaster or calamities affecting communities and cultures and languages mentioned above.
Generally to do everything to promote and take forward the above objectives and to receive funds, donations and grants from Government and Non-Government Oranisations in India and in other countries so long as the donations, grants and funds received do not implicitly or explicitly violate norms, rules and regulations of the Government in Gujarat and in India.
To institute awards, prizes, scholarships and fellowships at State and/or National level for achieving the objectives of the Trust.
To give grants, subsidies, and/or loans to other institutions/individuals for the furtherance of the objectives of this Trust.
To recommend fresh areas as and when identified by the Board of Trustees.

Bhasha Founders & Leadership

Bhasha was founded by a group of eminent and socially committed educationists and writers: Prof. Ganesh Devy, Ms Nisha Grover, Dr Ravikant Joshi, Ms Sandhya Gajjar, and Prof. Surekha Devi.

Founding Trustees

  • Dr. Ganesh Devy
  • Dr. Surekha Devi
  • Smt. Sandhya Gajjar

Current Trustees

Ms. Nisha Grover2023–2026
Dr. Om Damani2023–2026
Dr. Madan Meena2023–2026
Dr. Rashmi Sawhney2023–2026
Smt. Rekha Chaudhari2023–2026
Shri Pranav Joshi16 Jan 2024 – AGM 2027
Shri Sudhir Horo10 Sep 2024 – AGM 2027

Office Bearers

Smt. Nisha GroverManaging Trustee, 2023–2026
Shri Pranav JoshiSecretary, 16 Jan 2024 – AGM 2027

Bhasha believes in keeping its structure lean and non-hierarchical, with a small, flexible, and multitasking team. Volunteer and career opportunities span functions such as: Research & Documentation, Publishing, Education, Networking, Project Planning, Trust/Fund Management, Accounting, and Resource Audit.

The team at present includes:

Bhasha Trust Office

  • Trust Office Co-ordinator
  • Academic Co-ordinator
  • Accounts Officer

Adivasi Academy

  • Hon. Director
  • Resident Dy. Director
  • Public Relation Officer
  • Museum Curator
  • Archives & Media Coordinator
  • Librarian
  • Educational Work Co-ordinator
  • Prakruti Health Clinic Co-ordinator
  • Ayush Project Co-ordinator
  • Ayurved Doctor
  • Vasant Shala Incharge
  • Accounting Team
  • Support Staff in each area

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