THE BHAVISHYA LAB
If you had a magic wand to change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Our Work
OverHeat Network
The Museum of Moving Lives
The Museum of Moving Lives
A news platform dedicated to bring out stories of climate change impacts and resilience from the frontlines- vulnerable communities, species and ecosystems in urban India.
The Museum of Moving Lives
The Museum of Moving Lives
The Museum of Moving Lives
A living archive that documents the music, dance, art and other cultural productions by urban poor, migrant communities in India. It traces aspirations and needs, joys and griefs, exploitation and leisure, relationships and emotions of the moving workers of India.
The Prem Patra Project
The Museum of Moving Lives
The Prem Patra Project
An exploration of love, allyship and gender roles in everyday life. The project builds allyship between genders, and helps rethink gender roles and reimagine relationships. It also builds leaders who break gender barriers and support each other in the same.
The Inner Salon
Music in the Haveli
The Prem Patra Project
A space for reflection and conversation where film, art, literature, stories, and shared experiences open windows into our emotional landscapes. Through intimate gatherings, the salon explores how our inner worlds shape our lives, relationships, communities, and the futures we imagine.
Music in the Haveli
Music in the Haveli
Music in the Haveli
A wellness-based venture which offers immersive and diverse musical experiences to audiences in heritage spaces, coupled with transnational history narration and local cuisines. Started by our founder, Shruti, and musician Sharad Joshi.
The Climate-Do Club
Music in the Haveli
Music in the Haveli
An educational initiative where we support schools, organizations and projects in India working with children and youth by designing programs, curricula and trainings on environment and climate leadership. We also support storytelling and M&E for such projects. We deliver select trainings.
The History for Future Initiative
The History for Future Initiative
The History for Future Initiative
In a world where divisive stories increasingly shape how we see one another, this children-focused initiative practices intentional and thoughtful history-telling that nurtures empathy, curiosity, and care. Through diverse and often unheard perspectives, it helps young people recognize historic inequalities, value sharing and coexistence, and imagine futures rooted in justice, peace, and respectful coexistence with the living world.
The Bhavishya Advisory
The History for Future Initiative
The History for Future Initiative
The Bhavishya Advisory works with organizations in India on program design and strategy, impact measurement and documentation, and strategic outreach related to climate justice, gender equity, community inclusion and engagement, and young people's leadership.
Through participatory and arts-based approaches, it helps partners create initiatives that are more inclusive, impactful, and rooted in lived realities.
Meet Our Founder
Shruti Sinha
Shruti is a creative, futures thinker with a keen sense of changemaking from the ground up. She has diverse experience in the development and policy space, beginning her career as a legislative assistant to a Member of the Indian Parliament and representing India at the G20 Youth Summit in Shanghai in 2016.
Since then, she has worked to advance change from multiple directions-from evidence-based advocacy through several first-of-its-kind research initiatives, to designing and supporting grassroots campaigns, and co-designing policy with government institutions. Over time, she has found the greatest meaning in working closely with people’s movements and community-centered programs, having run several such programs on climate resilience, air pollution, gender and green livelihoods among other themes.
Shruti is a history detective, always searching for hidden histories and systemically unheard stories. She holds a dual Masters degree in International and World History from Columbia University in New York and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She also deeply enjoys working with children, be it on climate and environmental issues, community leadership, gender or history. With a long-standing love for culture and the arts, she has increasingly woven creative approaches into all the work she does.
The Bhavishya Lab is her tribute to an interdisciplinary way of thinking and working, and to a deep commitment to nurturing futures, cities, communities, and societies that are warm, inclusive and friendly to all.