“Be The Catalyst enabling rural and semi-urban youth with talent in creative arts to be financially self-reliant.
We mentor and enable artists to tap into their creative talents and earn from arts like Music, Dance, Theater, Performing Arts, Creative Photography, Film making, Writing, and Art Entrepreneurship.”
Narayana’s ArtNirbhar Bharat Foundation is the catalyst enabling a cultural, artistic, and economic revolution in India’s rural landscape with it’s mission to make India #ArtNirbhar.
Narayana’s ArtNirbhar Bharat Foundation is committed to enabling rural and semi-urban youth with talent in creative arts to be financially self-reliant. We mentor and enable artists to tap into their creative talents and earn from arts like Music, Dance, Theatre, Performing Arts, Creative Photography, Filmmaking, Writing, and Art Entrepreneurship.
Through multiple structured revenue streams like content production, events, merchandise, publication, studio, learning and development, we work to increase income opportunity for artists in rural areas and smaller towns. We aim to create entrepreneurial and artistic success stories, making the Indian youth self reliant, so they do not have to leave their ancestral villages and migrate to cities in search of livelihood.
Backstory
Narayana’s started during a journey to Badrinath, Uttarakhand, where Richa Khandelwal Bhat met singer Vipul Mehta, who plays guitar and sings at the Badrinath Temple. Inspired by the brief jamming session, Richa connected with Vipul over Facebook and through him, with other artists around Badrinath, like Bhumesh Panwar, Shubham Dimri and Anshuman Bhandari among others. Their collaboration led to the formation of a band called Narayana’s, the Himalayan Artsy Crew. Over several travels of the team between Bangalore and Badrinath, a narrative was formed. A purpose, a vision, a mission to enable artists in rural India began taking shape. During COVID times, the need to support our artist friends in Badrinath led to creation of an entrepreneurial venture called Tulsi Mala for Badri. It’s success led to formation of Narayana’s Bharat.
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Our Team
Richa Khandelwal Bhat
Managing Director, Narayana’s Bharat
Manju Khandelwal
Director, Narayana’s Bharat
Dinesh Khandelwal
Chairman, Narayana’s Bharat
Narayana’s Bharat Advisory Board
Shravani Dang
Mentor – Corporate Outreach at Narayan’s Bharat
Fulcrum Lifetime achievement awardee,CAF India Board member, Online Reputation specialist
A policy, industry/govt relations, communications and CSR leader, Shravani is a reputation and brand de-risker, analyst and expert. A trusted advisor and counsel to boards and leadership, she serves as a board member to international NGO Charities Aid Foundation (CAF India).
Mr. Arun Murthy Battula
FRSA, Senior Advisor, Project and Program Management at Narayan’s Bharat
Arun is the Vice-Chair Marketing at Europe India Centre for Business and Industry. Arun M Battula comes with 23 years of Industry experience in Information Technology, Project, Program and Stakeholder Management for Fortune 100 clients and Startups. An alumnus of GIM, Panaji, he has also learnt from the Executive programs at IIM Calcutta and London School Economics, London.
Sumathi Rao
Senior Advisor – CSR Advocacy and Government Outreach at Narayana’s Bharat
Public Health Advocacy, Media, Development Sector Leader, with experience in advising Corporate, and NGO’s to manage social sector programs with good social return on investment and measurable impact. Former journalist and Director Communications and Sustainability Philips India.
Venkatesh Murthy
Mentor – Corporate Relations and Human Resource Management at Narayana’s Bharat
Venkatesha Murthy is the founder and Chief Mentor of ‘Youth for Seva’, a forum to empower youth to become selfless change agents in the society.
In recognition of the valuable contribution, Youth for Seva was conferred the prestigious “Rajyotsava Award” by the Karnataka State Government in 2020.
Johnson Mathew
CHRO – IRM Group
Mentor – Corporate Relations and Human Resource Management at Narayana’s Bharat
A dynamic social and corporate leader, having 25+ years of experience in HR domain. His main forte is Talent Acquisition & Talent Management.
Siddhinath Vishwakarma
Senior Advisor – Campaign: Strategy & Process at Narayan’s Bharat
A stalwart in the media industry of India. Siddhinath served as the Editor- Output at Zee Media Corporation Limited. At ZMCL, Siddhinath drove the channel into the top-3 of the Hindi news segment for a continuous period of 3+ years and worked extensively on the prime-time show DNA.
Meenakshi Patil
Associate Partner , IBM Latin America
Senior Advisor, Corporate Relations, Technology Integration & Global Community Outreach at Narayana’s Bharat
Meenakshi is currently heading the IGNITE Practice & Sales for Latin America, based out IBM Brazil. Prior to this – she was heading the Emerging Technologies GNITE Practice (AI, Blockchain, Microservices, Salesforce & Quantum computing). She holds an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B).
