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About The Founder

Prof. (Dr) Madan Mohan Verma is the Founder & President of Interfaith Foundation of India. He has the widest network of Interfaith scholars in India and abroad. He is one of the most authentic and trustworthy scholars of world’s major religious scriptures.

He is Prof.  & Chair of Religious Harmony at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Deemed University, Rajasthan since 2012. He was associated with Delhi University both as a student and as Professor for 40 years. He has supervised research projects of eminent scholars &HoD’s of Delhi University and JNU, among others.

During the last 15 years, he significantly contributed to the cause of Interfaith harmony through lectures, conferences, seminars, workshops, and writings, and through intimate personal interaction with religious leaders and scholars of different faith traditions. He has been many a time honoured at conferences/events.He has organized and presented papers in more than one hundred conferences, seminars, workshops, and round tables with fifty-seven visits abroad.

Above all, Prof. Verma is known for his humility and compassionate behaviour, looking for an opportunity to serve all. He sincerely practices the principle of Nishkam Karma, promotes Sarvodaya, and worships the Lord in the well-being of all. Prof. Verma looks after persons from the weaker classes as his own children.

Prof. Verma is a rare author, whose three classic works – Bhagavad-Gita…a perspective, Gandhi’s Technique of Mass Mobilization, A Dialogue with Truthhave been published by world’s most renowned publisher “PARTRIDGE A Penguin Random House Company.

 

Our Commitment To

  • Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.
  • Let all sides be my friends.
  • Gather knowledge from all quarters.
  • Knowledge is knowledge.
  • Appreciate all religions in their distinctiveness and peculiarity.
  • Worship God in the well-being of all.
  • May the diverse faiths and cultures coexist and blossom into a harmonious society.
  • May there be peace on Earth.
  • Subject of all religions is the same.

Visits Abroad

Fifty Two Visits Abroad

Year of Visit

Place of Visit

Nature of Activity

1983, 84, 86, 88, 96

Pyongyang, DPR Korea

Academic Meets

1983

Kathmandu, Nepal

Led a Students Tour

1984, 88

Beijing, China

Academic Meets

1983, 84, 96

Moscow, Russia

Academic Meets

1991

Tehran, Iran

Presented Paper at the West Asia Peace Conference

1991, 93, 94, 95,96,97

Prague, Czech Republic

Led a delegation and lectured at Prague Institute of Foreign Affairs

1988, 93, 94, 96

Jagiellonian University, Warsaw Institute of Foreign Affairs, Indira Gandhi International School (Poland)

Lectured and led delegations

1991

Budapest, Hungary

Academic Meets

1993, 94, 97

Bratislava

Led a delegation

1994

Vienna, Austria

Led a delegation

1995

Thimpu, Bhutan

Academic Meets

1996, 97

Singapore

Academic Meets

1997

New York, USA

International Conference of World NGOs at UN Headquarters

1997

Frankfurt, Germany

High level meetings

1997

Geneva, Switzerland

High level meetings

1997

Rome, Italy

High level meetings

1997

Paris, France

High level meetings

1997

London, UK

High level meetings

1997

Tokyo, Nagasaki, Fokkuoka (Japan)

High level meetings

2008

Madrid, Spain

Presented Paper at International Conference

2008

Doha, Oman

International Conference

2011

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Member of a delegation

2012

Hong Kong

Academic

August 2012

Hong Kong

Academic Meets

August 2013

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 

Three-day Global Peace Convention Organized by GPF (USA)

August 2014

Hong Kong

Academic Meets

Dec 2014

Turkey

Interaction at Fateh University Istanbul Visit to Rumi’s Mazar, Konya

Dec 2015

Dubai

Academic

March 2016

Abu Dhabi

Visit to the Grand Mosque

July 2016

Dubai

Study Tour

October 2016

Dubai

Study Tour

February 2017

Manila, Philippines

International Peace Convention

March 2017

Sharjah,(UAE)

Study Tour

12-23 July 2017

UAE

Ras Al-Khaimah