Programs
- Gyan Panchayat: Public hearings (jan sunvai) on the world of knowledge, particularly science and the university
- Lokavidya Panchayat: Gatherings of artisans, farmers, women, adivasis and small retailers, separately and together to claim fair economic returns and equal status in society for their knowledge and challenge the University’s position as sole arbiter on knowledge claims. Publication, blog etc.
- Lokavidya Adhyayan Peeth: Conducting studies into lokavidya, its information base, logic, values, dynamics, and its desired and actual relationships with people's lives, relationship with science, capital, internet, state, religion, market, university, etc, and research into the idea and reality of Gram Vidyalok (autonomous knowledge-worlds).
- Kala Sadhana: Training, learning, performing and dialoguing activities in various art forms with the understanding that it is here that people's knowledge activity flowers with autonomy, self respect and intensity.
- Dialogues on Knowledge in Society: Dialogue among activists, peasants, artisans and the educated in the movements, habitats, fields, worksites and the universities to show that at the base of the political, economic and cultural issues lies a radical knowledge question which needs to be debated and understood for a basic transformation of society.
- Bhaichara Vidyalaya: Campaign for equal respect to all streams of knowledge with activities like evening schools for rural children, Yuva Gyan Shivirs (Knowledge Camps for Youth), Vidyarthi Vikas Karyakram (Program for Poor Students) and training in knowledge journalism.
Photo: Bhaichara Vidyalaya
