Prabha Khaitan Foundation is dedicated to the socio-cultural welfare and humanitarian cause. It is a non-profit trust founded by Late Dr. Prabha Khaitan. Based in Kolkata, the Foundation promotes performing arts, culture and literature, and collaborates with caregivers, committed individuals and like-minded institutions to implement cultural, educational, literary and social welfare projects in India.
Prabha Khaitan Foundation supports the UNESCO view that cultural development has the potential to be an alternative way of promoting sustainable development in poor rural communities, especially in the third-world countries. For us, culture stands for language, music, literature, visual arts, dance, drama, oral traditions, and traditional practices. The objective of the foundation is to create an enabling structure and promote networking so that communities engage with each other to work towards building positive self-esteem, inspire creativity and pro- mote culture and knowledge.
Late Dr. Prabha Khaitan was an eminent Indian litterateur, philanthropist, social worker, entrepreneur and feminist. She was the founder of the Prabha Khaitan Foundation and was actively involved in initiatives that further the cause of women empowerment.
Her vision of working for a better tomorrow drives the machinery of the organisation and is embodied in her famous words: Karma hi jeevan hai (Work is life)
To promote and recognize talent in literature, performing art, folk music and dance, films, the Foundation organizes events throughout the country and beyond its shores. These campaigns are held to motivate and inspire the listeners and spread awareness about our cultural capital. Here are some of our initiatives:
providing platform for regional literature
providing platform to screen films/documentaries
An indian traditional sit and talk session which hosts renowned individuals to interact about various aspects of their life and field of work
to provide education to children, presently over 20,000 children are being assisted through this programme
an initiative to ensure animal welfare
providing platform for book launches
an initiative to bring smile to the little hearts
providing platform to traditional fold music and performing folk artists
An initiative to provide a platform for international authors (non-Indians) to interact with an audience in India.
Our vision is to explore newer possibilities and collaborations, especially in promoting and popularizing regional literature and culture, by providing a meaningful platform for holding Literary Exchange Programs across India. Shabd - Where Literature Meets - is an initiative to bring together the bright minds behind the various literary activities in India.
The Foundation believes that the women of today are the catalyst for change in the times to come and it brings together minds who think of a better future and pledge to make a difference. Ehsaas is a conglomeration of women from all walks of life who are graceful in their own ways and inspire others for betterment of the society and promote Indian culture.
