Our culture, our identity!
Our identity, our right!
Facilitating Partners
Our pillars of support!
Olakhaan Trust
Rajasthan
Olakhaan stands for ‘Identity’ in the dialect spoken by Nomads of Rajasthan. It refers to a state of selfhood that encompasses all aspects of one’s culture.
Olakhaan Trust is a non-profit organisation set up under the Rajasthan Public Trust Act, 1959. The organisation, established in the year 2018, is the brainchild of Paras Banjara, a sociopolitical rights activist hailing from the nomadic Banjara community. Stemming from extensive filed knowledge and his own lived experiences, Olakhaan is addresses critical gaps in access to rights among some of India’s most marginalised communities, including Nomadic, Dalit and Adivasi communities.
Antakshari Foundation
Delhi
Antakshari Foundation works to promote values of constitutionalism, equality, diversity, inclusion and accountability in India. The organisation's primary effort is building need-based interventions to improve the lives of marginalised communities, with special focus on vulnerable sections of populations such as women and children. Antakshari has a vast network of grassroots communities working with governmental agencies, professionals and other civil society groups on varied interventions across including child rights, gender equality and environment.
Ranga Mandira Trust
Chennai
Ranga Mandira is committed to dissemination of knowledge of the arts, with a social context. In today’s world, it is very important to study performances and practice of the arts, as societal interests. Ranga Mandira actively supports various projects that help understand the complex relationship of the arts to its practitioners and people, focusing on issues of gender, community, social bias, rights, hegemony, agency etc. We work to create passage of transmission of arts to next generations, both within and from the various artist communities without usurpation, hegemony and discredit.