BACK TO THE FUTURE

While Anna Hazare took to Jantar Mantir and Baba Ramdev to Ramlila Grounds, much to the glee of TRP-hunting Television channels, industrialist Rishi Pal Chauhan took to character-building through education. If a superficial television show could eliminate corruption and a Lok Pal Bill could create value-oriented citizens, India would soon emerge as a beacon among the comity of nations!

Distressed by what he saw – an India of teeming talent and knowledge base, trailing behind some of the poorest countries of the world – Rishi Pal Chauhan, who comes from a famous family of entrepreneurs, decided to make a difference. Leaving behind his lucrative job in the US, this young engineer decided to set up a school for character-building and talent nurturing. Thus was born Jiva Public School way back in 1983.

In 1989 Rishi met Steven Rudolph in the US. The two shared a vision of India’s potential and her pivotal role in the emerging global scenario. And the duo returned to India in 1994 with a model of learning combining the ancient wisdom of the East with the technological advancement of the West.

Jiva Culture is committed to rediscovering the greatness of Ancient India, revisiting the major cultural motifs and studying indigenous customs and rituals to understand their deeper values. Restoring the triangular bond of relationship between man and man, between man and animal, and between man and environment, is the primary task of Jiva Culture.

To this end, it engages scholars, sociologists, historians and writers to bring to the fore the embedded traditional knowledge systems hidden in indigenous literature, arts, customs, and rituals. It will establish greater meaning and a sense of direction to human civilization, for which our ancient education system was famous.