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How did you last
experience culture?

When did you last engage with authenticity?

If you're taking a moment to recall, that's the problem we're working to solve.

See the gap

What we're building

Culture today is priced and pushed out of reach

Tickets cost more every year. Most of it sits in the same few city pockets. Even pottery and crochet now show up wrapped in cafe pricing.


The craft hasn't changed, only the markup.

60%

Art traditions have fewer than 500 practitioners

30%

fewer artists than just a few years ago

0.1%

of the national budget goes to culture

43%

of young people feel isolated, even connected

Four things hold a culture up

Learning

Who gets to learn, and how.

Making

Who gets to create.

Demand

Who gets to create.

Infrastructure

Where all of it happens: the thread that ties the rest together.

We're not building one big institution

We're building a network, three parts working together.


Each one is already standing in your neighbourhood. They were just never asked to work together.

Government Schools

Community Networks

Traditional Culture Centres

What if culture was a

15-minute walk away?

Natya Mandirs

Cultural Centers

Art Academies

Paris, Berlin and parts of the Netherlands

built the 15-minute city: everything you need, a short walk from

home. We're applying the same thinking to culture in India.

Natya mandirs, art academies, cultural centres and government schools already sit 20 to 30 minutes apart in neighbourhoods like Borivali.

We're not building from zero. We're connecting what's already there.

Better access

Lower emissions


Stronger local economies

Tighter communities


Tighter communities


Where this is already taking shape

Theatre

Craft

Music

Dance

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