Founded on November 7, 1938 with the blessings of Mahatma Gandhi and co-operation and support of several distinguished stalwarts of India’s freedom movement, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has grown from small beginnings into a comprehensive all India intellectual, cultural and educational movement. It is totally apolitical. Its founder, Kulpati Dr. K. M. Munshi looked upon the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan as an ‘Adventure in Faith’, a faith in India’s past, present and future. It is also a faith in India’s people who have a rich and unbroken cultural heritage True to its goal of revitalizing Dharma or Moral Law in its three fold aspects of Truth, Love and Beauty, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is ceaselessly striving to carry forward India’s ageless message of Faith, Self-discipline and dedication. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan believes that there are elements in all cultures which transcend all barriers and knit people together. Its ideal is: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. “The world is one Family”. Its motto is “Let noble thoughts come to us from every side”. During the last eight decades and more of its existence, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has blossomed into an ever growing voluntary apolitical national movement with an international look, devoted to life, literature and culture. The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s multi-dimensional programmes through its 117 centres in India and 7 centres abroad and 355 constituent institutions cover” all aspects of life from the cradle to the grave and beyond-it fills a growing vacuum in modern life,” as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru observed when he first visited the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1950.