Hansadhwani's people 1

Hansadhwani's people are those folks who believed in the idea of Hansadhwani even before it could be shared with the world...while still in its infancy. One of them who bought the idea, by just listening to it over the phone is the young man who agreed to work on our website.

It is someone who is like this :) to believe in our ideas. A very bright young fellow, now married and heading a company called Altwebmedia (click link to know better) He was among the earliest to get on the bandwagon.
Thanks Ajay.

In Himachal- Sep-Oct 2011

At the  Deer Park Institute a conference was organized recently by collaboration with -SIDH to discuss issues regarding Indian Perspectives on Education- organized by the Deer Park Institute, Himachal Pradesh and SIDH. In this historical conference there were discussions about the traditional views of education with representatives from Mahayana Buddhism, Jains, HIndus- Chinmaya Mission, J Krishnamurty's school, Gandhiji's Nai taleem and scores of others from numerous places around the world-
It was a great experience and synergies seem to be emerging on all sides.

June 2011

Writing about what happened in June, in October is a bit late in the day. But since we did something that was not recorded anywhere making a note of it here-

1. Training of teachers of Katha schools
2. Meetings with Trustees and team of Bapu Trust Pune- www.bapucamhindia.org
3. Meeting with the local NGO at Curtorim, Goa- represented by Mr Ponsiano and Abhijit Prabhudesai: there is a possibility of some work with them in future, if we set out to do some work in Goa.

How we changed the way we stood in the World

At the time HansFon was founded we said it would be -nurturing the Arts. And accordingly all our stationery was printed and we kept telling all and sundry about that. But psychology has been a very central theme of all our work and as time went by we felt that the manner in which we are approaching the whole thing, it would not be sufficient to say we are merely nurturing the arts. What is different between HansFon and any other arts' organization?

That is where the idea took root and we started looking at psyche as the canvas on which we would be plotting all our effort. So slowly it changed and from the Arts, we brought psyche as the focus area of our work. So now we are saying that we are nurturing the Self through art. Self is a concept of the psyche or mann of the human. For us, as we saw it always and articulate more clearly now- the central theme is not art but the human. We are there in service of the human and art is just one of the human expressions. By training people in the arts or making them understand how to look at life by knowing their own artistic selves...we wish to contribute to people understanding themselves a bit better.

This was a much needed shift and it calls for a sigh of relief!