Neville Tuli

Neville Tuli (Born 24 April 1964) was educated as an economist & developmental theorist at London School of Economics & St Catherine's College, Oxford. He returned to India in 1993 after 25 years in the West. Sensing the need to understand the artistic and cultural systems at every level, he traveled across the country visiting hundred of cities, towns, villages and monuments, trying to grasp the relationship of various individuals and entities to artistic creativity. While the Indian fine arts, cinema and architectural heritage disciplines were explored anew, they found their place amid philosophy, literature and development economics, his previous fields of knowledge.

Neville Tuli devoted his endeavors towards his vision to build a new holistic infrastructure for the Indian arts, culture & its education, which was also financially self-sufficient and built by a unique creative process. The steps taken towards this goal have been path breaking and varied but collectively focusing upon the need to integrate the intellectual, aesthetic and economic dimensions of development. He is today acknowledged the world over as an authority on Indian Art & Culture.

In 1995, he established HEART (The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education & Art). A registered charitable society, it aimed to help build a quality-conscious infrastructure for the Indian fine arts. The process by which this could be established was unique, in the sense that it did not rely on government...
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