Our Story
At Prastara
Founded by S. Jayakumar & a group of heritage enthusiasts in 2010, with a mission to create awareness about the rich heritage of India. We wanted to focus on educating the youth of our country on areas related to History & Heritage.
To achieve this, we have been identifying, documenting, preserving, and sharing the sources of cultural information to different sections of the public; hoping to inspire in people a sense of ownership to various representations of heritage and history around them.
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Over the years one of our major activities has been to conduct outreach programmes for school and college students in South India, through regular field trips and lecture series.
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We have also been supporting educational institutions to start heritage and history clubs and initiating activities such as cleaning of historical monuments, quizzing programmes, painting competitions, etc.
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Our other vertical includes documentation and archival of the tangible and intangible heritage of India. We use the mediums of photography and/or videography to study and document. We have been fortunate to have worked on a wide range of projects in ten years. In order to create a network of knowledge sharing amongst the general public, we have been conducting events that address or revolve around a specific theme. These include talks, lectures by eminent personalities, concerts, and even marathons.
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To reach out to a more varied and diverse set of people, we have also partnered and collaborated with various cultural and arts organisations in South India.
