Pleach
PLEACH India Foundation established in the year 2015 is a non-profit organization that aims to promote art and culture with particular focus on the tangible heritage of India.
PLEACH means to interlace or an entwine, our platform aims to weave our vibrant cultural heritage to people through the right mediums, in order to develop a strong sense of rootedness for India’s growth in the 21st Century. We call this ‘Pleachify’ or ‘Pleachification’.
PLEACH is also an acronym which stands for ‘Preserve, Learn, Educate, Art, Culture, Heritage’.
Vision
Inspire and Impact through Cultural Heritage
Mission
To create an ecosystem to ‘Pleachify’ culture and heritage with people
To document, preserve and disseminate knowledge on built-heritage & material culture
Projects
Documentation
- of about 400 archaeological sites and monuments of India.
- of Deccani Miniature paintings in Telangana State Museum, India.
- of archaeological data available across the country in specific areas – Rock Art sites of India.
Dissemination
- Pleach Talk Series with field experts.
- Heritage walks & treks.
- Heritage sensitization program at villages under our flagship banner ‘Preserve Heritage for Posterity’.
- Know your Heritage modules for corporates and educational institutions based on NEP guidelines.
- Publications: a) Ghanpur group of temples. b) Deccani Miniature paintings of state museum.
- Coffee Table books: a) Stepwells of India. b) Prehistoric Rock art sites of India.
Heritage Conservation/Restoration Consultancy
- Conservation of British Residency, Hyderabad.
- Restoration of Someswara Temple, Kolanupaka.
- Consultancy for transplantation of Heritage temples at Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.
- Consultancy for creating a Museum at Kedarnath Temple.
- Consultancy for Digital documentation of SV Museum, TTD.
Location of our Centres
Providing physical platform for promoting Literary and contemporary cultural activities (Music, Art, Dance, Poetry)
- The Cultural Centre of Vijayawada & Amaravati
Madhu Malaxmi Chambers, Moghalrajpuram, Vijayawada-520010 (AP) India - The Attic
Malaxmi Courtyard, Survey No.157, Khajaguda village, Hyderabad-500104 (TS) India
Why ‘Pleachify’
As a nation, we Indians are extremely fortunate to have rich heritage spaces which display an intricate fusion of aesthetics and skill sets through their art and architecture. They illustrate very high standards of creativity and intelligence of our ancestors. Our unique legacy not only helps us understand our past, but also becomes crucial in building the competencies that are required for the 21st century & beyond.
On our platform PLEACH, we seek to entwine our heritage with our lives primarily at two levels. Establishing a deep connection to the present in terms of our heritage’s relevance and the value it adds to our lives. The second one is weaving the rich heritage sites of India with the historical aspects that enabled them. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach PLEACH stands by its acronym – ‘Preserve, Learn, Educate, Art, Culture, Heritage’.
Our contemporary arts, crafts, and visual forms of creativity define our present, they are a continuation and an evolution of the rich legacy that we have inherited over time immemorial. They are precious and need to be preserved and cherished by all generations. They form the core strength that defines our confidence and keeps us rooted in this day and age of AI & ML.
Why ‘Pleachify’
As a nation, we Indians are extremely fortunate to have rich heritage spaces which display an intricate fusion of aesthetics and skill sets through their art and architecture. They illustrate very high standards of creativity and intelligence of our ancestors. Our unique legacy not only helps us understand our past, but also becomes crucial in building the competencies that are required for the 21st century & beyond.
On our platform PLEACH, we seek to entwine our heritage with our lives primarily at two levels. Establishing a deep connection to the present in terms of our heritage’s relevance and the value it adds to our lives. The second one is weaving the rich heritage sites of India with the historical aspects that enabled them. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach PLEACH stands by its acronym – ‘Preserve, Learn, Educate, Art, Culture, Heritage’.
Our contemporary arts, crafts, and visual forms of creativity define our present, they are a continuation and an evolution of the rich legacy that we have inherited over time immemorial. They are precious and need to be preserved and cherished by all generations. They form the core strength that defines our confidence and keeps us rooted in this day and age of AI & ML.
Why ‘Pleachify’
As a nation, we Indians are extremely fortunate to have rich heritage spaces which display an intricate fusion of aesthetics and skill sets through their art and architecture. They illustrate very high standards of creativity and intelligence of our ancestors. Our unique legacy not only helps us understand our past, but also becomes crucial in building the competencies that are required for the 21st century & beyond.
On our platform PLEACH, we seek to entwine our heritage with our lives primarily at two levels. Establishing a deep connection to the present in terms of our heritage’s relevance and the value it adds to our lives. The second one is weaving the rich heritage sites of India with the historical aspects that enabled them. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach PLEACH stands by its acronym – ‘Preserve, Learn, Educate, Art, Culture, Heritage’.
Our contemporary arts, crafts, and visual forms of creativity define our present, they are a continuation and an evolution of the rich legacy that we have inherited over time immemorial. They are precious and need to be preserved and cherished by all generations. They form the core strength that defines our confidence and keeps us rooted in this day and age of AI & ML.
Our Collaborations
Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa
World Monuments Fund
The Rainwater Project
Heritage Matters
Dept. of History, Telangana Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
Osmania University
Maris Stella College
Deccan Heritage Foundation
Leadership
Dr. Tejaswini Yarlagadda
Chairperson & Managing Trustee
A mother and a historian, began her active life at Pleach with the inspiration drawn from the necessity of her children to connect to the rich heritage of India. Dr. Tejaswini has set out to primarily build the bridge between the valuable research in the historical academia with the not so academic majority to establish the right connect in the world of Indian heritage.
Former Chairperson of Indian Women’s Network – Telangana, Convenor, Culture & Tourism Panel, Confederation of Indian Industry, Telangana, She obtained her Master of Arts, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad. She was the recipient of the university gold medal for her outstanding performance in Master of Arts in History and was a UGC Fellow.
Dr. E. Sivanagi Reddy
Chief Executive Officer
A renowned archaeologist, a sthapati, Dr. Sivanagireddy’s versatility, with an amazing spirit of learning is indeed an asset for our organization. Obtaining his Doctorate from the University of Hyderabad, Dr. Sivanagireddy was Member, Board of the Salar Jung Museum Hyderabad. He has been the Member, Expert Committees of Yadadri, Srisailam, Kanakadurga and Kedarnath Temples. With more than 35 years of service in the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Andhra Pradesh, he has made outstanding contributions to the fields of archaeology, art, architecture, transplantation of temples and heritage conservation. He has also authored over 100 books and more than 500 articles on Buddhism, art, archaeology, epigraphy, temple architecture, history and heritage.
Partner with Pleach
As pillars of the community, we look forward to your active support by partnering with us as our Patrons in our endeavor to promote our cultural heritage.
- As Article 51A of our constitution states, it is our duty to not only value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture but to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform.
- to safeguard public property and
- to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavor and achievement, all of which PLEACH aims to do.
- together, let us strive to make a big impact on our nation by ‘Pleachifying’ our legacy in the right way.
- We are a registered 12A NGO with 80G Approval & CSR Registration.