Vidya Ashram

Ashram and its People

The Ashram honours its visitors equally. Peasants, artisans, intellectuals, women, adivasis, scientists, artists, administrators, statesmen, all are seen as epistemic beings, none inferior or superior to any other.

The Ashram is a place where people interested in Vidya come. They come for a day, a week, a few months, for even longer, or for indefinite periods. They come because they find the dialogue at the Ashram enlightening and rewarding. They come because they want to contribute to the Ashram by their ideas & lifestyle.

The Ashram is at Sarnath, seven kms north of the Varanasi cantonment Railway Station. Seven kilometers south of the Station is Banares Hindu University. This is the north south expanse of the city of Varanasi.

Sarnath symbolises the pan-national tradition of the perennial philosophy of change.

Sunil Sahasrabudhey	Philosopher/activist	Sarnath
Laxman Prasad	Farmer/Artisan	Sarnath
Dr. Chitra Sahasrabudhey	Social Organiser	Sarnath
Dilip Kumar ‘dili’	Farmer/Philosopher	Sarnath
Santosh Kumar Samvigya	Social Activist	Sarnath
Vinod Chaube	Social Activist	Sarnath
Pervez Aslam Hashmi	Shopkeeper	Varanasi
Mohammad Aleem Hashmi	Shopkeeper	Varanasi
Praval Kumar Singh	Electrical Engineer	Varanasi
Jagdish Singh Yadav	Kisan Union Leader	Varanasi
Dr. Naresh Sharma	Economist	Hyderabad
Dr. B. Krishnarajulu	Physicist	Hyderabad
Dr. Abhijit Mitra	Chemist	Hyderabad
Vinish Gupta	Linguist	Hyderabad
Mohan Rao	Social Activist	Chirala, AP
Dr. K. K. Surendran	Physicist	Pune
Dr. Girish Sahasrabudhey	Physicist	Nagpur
Avinash Jha	Philosopher	Delhi
Dr. J. K. Suresh	Knowledge Manager	Bangalore
Vijay Kundaji	Electrical Engineer	Bangalore
Kavi Mahesh	Knowledge Manager	Bangalore
Dr. Vijay Joshi	Environmentalist
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala	Communications Engineer	Chennai
Dr. C. N. Krishnan	Electrical Engineer	Chennai
Dr. Amit Basole	Economist	Boston
Shilpi Suneja	Web designer	Boston

Photo: A meeting at the ashram