Virtual Bharat

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Bahi | Tracing My Ancestors

Uncovering #1000StoriesofIndia

Virtual Bharat is an attempt to experience India as it lives through its people and practices. Through a thousand short films, laced with music, and immersive audio-visual storytelling, we bring together voices that often exist outside the frame. These are stories of art, craft, community, inherited wisdom and emotional inheritances. Virtual Bharat is a living, breathing space where culture continues to evolve and find new meaning. At its heart, the initiative seeks to bridge the past and the present, while remaining rooted in the idea of continuity. It is an effort to share an unseen, unheard India with the world, so that it can be experienced, felt, and carried forward. Virtual Bharat is also a creative lab operated by and with young minds.

Storytellers of the Nation
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Know India through rhythm, faith, music & ancestry

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An immersive, 1,000-film journey to celebrate a 5,000-year-old civilisation. A digital museum of unseen, untold stories — of art, culture, incredible places, inspiring people and soul-stirring social change — all told in under 10 minutes.

Dr. Haldhar Nag is a Sambalpuri poet and writer from Bargarh, Odisha. Popularly known as “Lok Kabi Ratna”, he was awarded a Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in the country, by the Government of India, in 2016. He was born in a poor family in the village of Ghens.