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.

Here is a list of the Ashram's People:

People at the Ashram

Sunil Sahasrabudhey Philosopher/activist
Laxman  Prasad Farmer/Artisan
Dr. Chitra Sahasrabudhey Social Organiser
Dilip Kumar ‘dili’ Farmer/Philosopher
Santosh Kumar Samvigya Teacher/Activist
Vinod Chaube Farmer/Organiser
Pervez Aslam Hashmi Farmer/Small Businessman
Mohammad Aleem Hashmi Artisan/Shopkeeper

Close Associates

Dr. Naresh Sharma Hyderabad
Dr. B. Krishnarajulu Hyderabad
Dr. Abhijit Mitra Hyderabad
Vinish Gupta Hyderabad
Mohan Rao Andhra Pradesh
Dr. K. K. Surendran Pune
Avinash Jha Delhi
Dr. J. K. Suresh Infosys
Vijay Kundaji
Kavi Mahesh
Dr. Vijay Joshi
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Dr. C. N. Krishnan
Praval Singh Chennai
Jagdish Singh Yadav Varanasi

Lokavidya Panchayat
May 2010

Lokavidya Panchayat: A new Hindi monthly launched (March 2010)

Knowledge Satyagraha: Towards a People's Knowledge Movement, Vidya Ashram at the Critical Point of View Wikipedia Conference, Amsterdam (March 2010)

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