Samvad India Foundation is a non-profit, Public Charitable Trust incorporated in New Delhi.

Samvad is a Sanskrit word which is now a part of the vocabulary of most modern Indian languages. Its meanings include: speaking together, conversation, dialogue, colloquy; discussion and debate; communication of tidings; information, news; assent, agreement; concurrence; similarity, and correspondence.

The objects for which the Trust is established include education, relief of the poor, medical relief and advancement of any other charitable objects of general public utility not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit.

More specifically the Foundation hopes to make a meaningful contribution to the intellectual, literary, artistic, spiritual, and critical cultures of contemporary India and of the South Asian Diaspora. The Foundation is interested not only in India's many pasts, with their rich and diverse traditions of philosophy, science, arts and crafts, but also with its many and complex contemporaneities, with issues of modernity and development, civil society and governance. Finally, the Foundation is also concerned with India's interactions with other civilizations, the building of new world orders, and the whole range of human endeavours that are engaged in constructing alternative futures.

The Foundation hopes to facilitate, encourage, and promote specific projects and proposals in some of these areas.