Latest · Community & AjmerTwelve Stamps and a City Rediscovered: Closing Out Independence MonthTwelve of Ajmer's freedom fighters, almost none photographed, reimagined as postage stamps for the Independence Month exhibition.
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2026-08-20 · Community & AjmerSwatantrata Sangram Ke Nayak: The Stories That Stayed With Us
An open call for posters, quotes and write-ups from across India on the freedom fighters who made an impact.
2026-08-04 · Community & AjmerCompetition: Swatantrata Sangram Ke Nayak
Open all for posters, quotes, and write-ups from across India about the Freedom Fighter who made an impact on you.2026-08-01 · AINA · AINA 3The Pressure
Eleven million unemployed graduates, three years of NEET failures, and the MSME sector families abandoned to chase them. Twenty-five references.
2026-07-21 · ChhaonCase Study: How Chhaon Was Built to Turn Shade Into Infrastructure You Can Measure
A Miyawaki forest with a paired sensor network under it, built to prove cooling with numbers rather than assumptions.
2026-06-27 · Living Heritage1000 Years of the Valley: Rediscovering Ajmer Through Maps
Ajmer's evolution over a thousand years, traced through maps, paintings, archival records and data visualisations in a scenographic exhibition.
2026-05-29 · shortWhy India Must Build Its Own Cultural AI
India's 5,000-year intellectual tradition is the most underrepresented dataset in modern AI. Project Bhaskar makes the case for building Indic language models, culturally grounded applications, and AI-generated media from within — arguing that genuine intelligence has never been culture-neutral, and that the next decade of Culture Tech will prove it.
2026-05-21 · ChhaonChhaon (छाँव): Shade as Infrastructure
Ajmer's streets hit 46°C in summer, and no data-verified cooling exists in the city today. Chhaon, Adaptiv's new climate experiment at Ana Sagar, uses native-only Miyawaki planting, live sensor data, and an urban-forest inspired café to prove that shade is not just comfort. It is infrastructure.
2026-05-15 · Living HeritageWhat if cities were the real museum?
On International Museum Day, Project Bhaskar makes the case that the traditional museum model — objects behind glass, removed from context — is the wrong framework for preserving living culture. India's real archives are its inhabited cities, its practised crafts, its spoken languages. And they are disappearing faster than any institution is moving.
2026-05-15 · India Padhta HaiIndia Padhta Hai: Bhaskar's Book Reading Challenge
India Padhta Hai is a free, all-India virtual book reading challenge by Project Bhaskar. Read one book a month across three themes - Roots, India Now, Imagine. In an age of AI, reading is how we stay sharp, keep languages alive, and think for ourselves. Join us this July.
2026-05-13 · Indic LLMUtkarshini: The Vedic AI That Actually Understands the Texts
Every major AI gets the Vedas wrong - fluent, confident, and subtly inaccurate. Utkarshini is Project Bhaskar's answer: the first AI model trained specifically on the Vedas and Upanishads, built on a scholar-reviewed parallel corpus that doesn't yet exist anywhere in machine-readable form. This is how we're building it.
2026-05-12 · AINARelease Note: AINA, a Mirror for India's Employment Crisis
AINA is an interactive project mapping 75 years of India's employment crisis — from Independence to 2025. Explore 44 causally linked events across Education, Industry, Technology, Regulation, and Socio-political fabric to understand how 11 million graduates became unemployed, and what it will take to change course.
2026-05-12 · Studio BhaskarIndia Has More Stories Than Storytellers. AI Changes That Equation.
India holds 5,000 years of untold stories — and AI is finally building the infrastructure to tell them. Project Bhaskar is building the infrastructure to fix it: reading apps, language APIs, AI tools, and human-centred events that together ensure that our stories finally find the audiences waiting for them.
2026-05-05 · shortProject Bhaskar and the culture quotient of society
Bhaskar is a Culture + Tech lab. We hope to build experiences, conduct research and publish observations on everything related to Indian culture, society and climate - because these forces are deeply interconnected. 
2026-04-17 · Be A ReaderCase Study: How Be A Reader was designed to rebuild the habit of deep reading
Reading is in decline, and no app is building for Indian literary traditions. Be A Reader is a deliberate reading and reflection tool for Hindi, English, Sanskrit, and regional literature. This case study documents the problem, the product decisions, and the technology behind it.
2026-04-14 · shortWhy Did an AI Flag a Raksha Bandhan Story as Prohibited Content?
A Hindi literary passage about Raksha Bandhan was blocked by AI safety filters as "prohibited content." The culprit? Idiomatic expressions like 'खा बैठी' and culturally specific dynamics that moderation systems, trained primarily on English-language data, consistently misclassify. We break down why — and what needs to change.
2026-04-12 · Studio BhaskarWhy Sairandhri? The Hidden Story Behind Our AI Film
Discover why Project Bhaskar chose Sairandhri (Draupadi's hidden identity during the Agyatwas) as the central theme of their AI film to explore female agency, identity under duress, and patriarchal resistance in Indian mythology, revealing how lesser-told stories offer powerful narratives for contemporary AI filmmaking.
2026-04-09 · Be A ReaderWhy is deep reading important in the age of AI?
As AI reshapes how we work and think, Project Bhaskar makes the case for deep reading as the foundation of critical thinking, creativity and empathy. Explore why we are building a reading space in Ajmer, the Bhaskar Reader app, and why India's regional literature holds the key to cultural sovereignty.
2026-04-01 · AINA · AINA 4Towards a Solution
The Modern Gurukul blueprint: cross-disciplinary learning, portfolio assessment, apprenticeship integration, and employment outcomes tracked.2026-04-01 · AINA · AINA 2Talent Flow
A century of India's outbound talent, 1924–2024. The loss compounds: each generation that leaves is one that did not stay to build the universities.2026-04-01 · AINA · AINA 1The Mirror
A 78-year causal timeline of India's employment crisis, 1947–2025. Interactive, with a story mode.
2026-03-11 · shortProject Bhaskar: A Creative Research Space for Indian Culture and AI
Project Bhaskar is a creative research space exploring the intersection of Indian culture and artificial intelligence. Through its Lab, Incubator, and Residency programs, the initiative brings together researchers, artists, and technologists to experiment, collaborate, and develop projects that connect traditional knowledge systems with emerging technologies in meaningful and innovative ways.Artists, writers, scientists, technologists: the pilot residency is open for interest.
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