Arts & Culture
T. D. Singh was an enthusiastic participant and proponent of the Arts. He was a singer, songwriter, published author and poet. He founded and performed with the Ranganiketan Manipuri Cultural Arts Troupe to share with the world the quintessence of the Bhagavata tradition of Manipur, which is a UNESCO listed Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Wherever he traveled he always encouraged local cultures to share their Bhagavat traditions through the medium of the Arts.
“People from various corners of the world will come much closer to each other, in friendship and understanding, through the universal language of art and culture.”
- T. D. Singh -
The Foundation provides support to individuals and institutions in the following artistic fields: Performing, Visual, Media, Culinary and Literary.
Preference is given when artistic work:
- Enhances a deeper devotional understanding and experience in the audience
- Reaches a broad, diverse and definable audience
- Fosters preservation of the Bhagavat cultural tradition of a specific community
- Brings together elements from different traditions in a spirit of cross cultural exchange with a goal of expanding the devotional arts
- Produces a dependable event, planned and publicized in advance to the general public
- Is publicly engaging and consistently of high quality
- Demonstrates community support
- Is operated with sound administrative and fiscal management
